Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 28
"May your child never know a hungry belly!" says Tom; "it's myself that's in need of your kindness.
Who acts: child, Tom, that · What happens: not know, say, be · To what, where: hungry belly, Tom, need · 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 (child, Tom, that), 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 | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 child | nmod:poss |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 belly | det |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 belly | amod |
| 9 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 myself | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 myself | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 myself | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 myself | cop |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 says | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 need | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 need | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 need | case |
| 22 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 myself | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 kindness | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 need | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | may | your child | a hungry belly | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer belly=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | child | Tom | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | that | need | of your kindness | 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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