Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 11
"Ah, then, Jack asthore," says he, "help me out or I'll be drowned."
Who acts: Jack asthore · What happens: say, help out, drown · To what, where: Jack, Jack asthore · 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 asthore), 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 | _ | 7 asthore | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 asthore | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 asthore | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asthore | compound |
| 7 | asthore | asthore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asthore | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asthore | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 help | compound:prt |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 drowned | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 drowned | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 drowned | aux:pass |
| 21 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 help | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jack asthore | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help out in a quote | infinitive | Jack asthore = asthore | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | drown in a quote | future · passive | Jack asthore = asthore | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/11/