Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 108

When they sat down to dinner, the lady of the house said Jack had the air of a born gentleman about him, and the lord said he'd make him his steward.

Who acts: toes, lady, Jack, lord · What happens: sit down, say, have, bear, make · To what, where: air, steward, Jack · 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 (toes, lady, Jack, lord), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lady	nmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 gentleman	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gentleman	det
20	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 gentleman	amod
21	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 air	nmod
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gentleman	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lord	det
27	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	nsubj
30	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 steward	nmod:poss
34	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	toes = toe			to dinner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the lady of the house				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	Jack	the air of a born gentleman about gentleman			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
4	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past	the lord				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make	would	Lord	Lord's steward	Jack		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary steward=Product

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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