Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 13
"Thank you, Jack," says he, when he was out on the hard road; "I'll do as much for you another time.
Who acts: Jack, I · What happens: thank, say, be, do · To what, where: you, Jack, hard road · 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, I), 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 | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jack | punct |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Thank | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 road | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 road | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 road | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 road | cop |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 was | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 road | amod |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 he | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obl |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | Jack vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Jack | the hard road | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | I | time | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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