Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 16
"And if you like," says the ass, "I'll go along with you; who knows what luck we may have!"
Who acts: you, ass, luck · What happens: like, say, go along, know, have · 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 (you, ass, luck), 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 | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 says | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 like | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ass | det |
| 10 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 knows | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 knows | nsubj |
| 21 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 have | obj |
| 23 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | nsubj |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 knows | ccomp |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | the ass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go along in a quote | future | the ass = ass | with you; along property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | have in a quote | may | luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.
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