Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 109
Jack brought his mother, and settled her comfortably near the castle, and all were as happy as you please.
Who acts: Jack, all · What happens: bring, settle, be · To what, where: mother, lady, castle
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, all), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 settled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 settled | cc |
| 7 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 settled | obj |
| 9 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 7 settled | advmod |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 settled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 happy | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 happy | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happy | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 happy | advmod |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 happy | obl |
| 21 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 18 happy | discourse |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Jack | Jack's mother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mother=Destination | ||||
| 2 | settle | past | Jack not said here | lady | the castle | comfortably property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme she=Location | ||
| 3 | is | past | all | as you; happy property | 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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