Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 101
"Ah, my lord, don't believe the rascal; sure I didn't open the door to the six robbers."
Who acts: you, master · What happens: not believe, not open · To what, where: rascal, door, six robbers · 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 (you, master), 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 | _ | 9 believe | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 believe | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ah | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 believe | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 believe | advmod |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rascal | det |
| 11 | rascal | rascal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 believe | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 believe | ccomp |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 open | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 open | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 open | advmod |
| 17 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 open | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 robbers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 robbers | det |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 robbers | nummod |
| 23 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 open | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 believe | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the rascal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rascal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not open in a quote | past · do-support | the master = master | the door | the six robbers | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to robber=Recipient |
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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