Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 100

"I'd be glad, Barney," says the master, "to hear your answer to the gentleman with the red comb on him."

Who acts: master, your · What happens: be, say, hear, answer · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 glad	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	cop
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Barney	punct
7	Barney	Barney	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 glad	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 master	det
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hear	mark
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	conj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 answer	nmod:poss
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 gentleman	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gentleman	det
21	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 comb	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 comb	det
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 comb	amod
25	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 comb	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	the master = master		Barney obl; glad property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the master			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hear in a quote	to-infinitive	the master not said here	your answer	to the gentleman; with the red comb on gentleman	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
4	answer in a quote		your			nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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