Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 23

"And wouldn't I be proud to go with you!" says the dog, "and get rid of them ill conducted boys; purshuin' to 'em."

Who acts: dog · What happens: not be, go, say, get, conduct · To what, where: 'em, ill conducted boys · 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 (dog), 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 proud	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 proud	cc
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 proud	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 proud	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 proud	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 proud	cop
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 says	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 proud	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 go	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 proud	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 proud	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dog	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 dog	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 get	cc
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	conj
21	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 get	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rid	obl
24	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boys	amod
25	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 boys	amod
26	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 get	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 purshuin	punct
28	purshuin	purshuin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	parataxis
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 purshuin	punct
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 'em	case
31	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	would	the dog = dog			proud property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	to-infinitive	the dog = dog not said here			with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary
3	say speech: express	present	the dog		'em = they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get in a quote	infinitive	the dog not said here	ill conducted boys		rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
5	conduct in a quote	participle					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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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