Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 29
May I be so bold as to ask where yez are all going?"
Who acts: I · What happens: be, ask, go · 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 (I), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bold | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bold | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bold | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 bold | advmod |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bold | advcl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 going | advmod |
| 10 | yez | yez | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ask | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bold | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | I | bold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | all, yez property | 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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