Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 103
"Never mind, sir," says Jack, "all your gold and silver is there in that sack, and I don't think you will begrudge us our supper and bed after our long march from the wood of Athsalach."
Who acts: Jack, silver, you · What happens: not mind, say, be, not think, begrudge · To what, where: sack, us, wood · 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 (Jack, silver, you), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gold | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 gold | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 gold | det:predet |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 gold | nmod:poss |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 there | cc |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 there | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | cop |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 gold | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sack | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 sack | det |
| 21 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 there | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 think | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 think | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 think | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 think | advmod |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 begrudge | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 begrudge | aux |
| 30 | begrudge | begrudge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 think | ccomp |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 begrudge | obj |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 supper | nmod:poss |
| 33 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 begrudge | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bed | cc |
| 35 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 supper | conj |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 march | case |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 march | nmod:poss |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 march | amod |
| 39 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 begrudge | obl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 wood | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 wood | det |
| 42 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 begrudge | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Athsalach | case |
| 44 | Athsalach | Athsalach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 wood | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | sir vocative | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | silver | that sack | there property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | Jack | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | begrudge in a quote | future | you | us | the wood of Athsalach | after our long march | tree rules |
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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