Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 27
"You look as if you saw the tops of nine houses since breakfast," says Jack; "here's a bone and something on it."
Who acts: You, Jack · What happens: look, see, say, be · To what, where: tops, bone · 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, Jack), 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 says | ccomp |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 saw | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 saw | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tops | det |
| 9 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 houses | case |
| 11 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 houses | nummod |
| 12 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tops | nmod |
| 13 | since | since | ADP | _ | 14 breakfast | case |
| 14 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 bone | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 here | punct |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 bone | advmod |
| 22 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bone | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bone | det |
| 24 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 something | cc |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 bone | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 something | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 something | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | You | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | you | the tops of nine houses | since breakfast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a bone | here | tree rules |
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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