Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 21
"I'm much obleeged to you: where is the baste and yourself going?"
Who acts: dog, yourself · What happens: be, go · To what, where: you, baste
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 (dog, yourself), 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 | _ | 5 obleeged | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 obleeged | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 obleeged | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 obleeged | advmod |
| 5 | obleeged | obleeged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 obleeged | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 baste | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 baste | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 baste | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 baste | det |
| 12 | baste | baste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obleeged | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 going | cc |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 going | nsubj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 baste | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 obleeged | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 obleeged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the dog = dog | you | obleeged property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the dog = dog not said here | the baste | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | yourself | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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