Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 3
So Jack said to his mother one evening, "Mother, bake my cake, and kill my hen, till I go seek my fortune; and if I meet it, never fear but I'll soon be back to share it with you."
Who acts: Jack · What happens: say, bake, kill, go, seek, meet · To what, where: mother, cake, hen, fortune · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 evening | nummod |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mother | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mother | punct |
| 11 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bake | punct |
| 13 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cake | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bake | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kill | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kill | cc |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bake | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hen | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kill | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 kill | parataxis |
| 25 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | xcomp |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seek | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 fear | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fear | cc |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 meet | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 meet | nsubj |
| 32 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 fear | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 meet | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 meet | punct |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 fear | advmod |
| 36 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 share | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 share | nsubj |
| 39 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 share | aux |
| 40 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 share | advmod |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 share | cop |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 44 share | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 share | mark |
| 44 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 fear | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 share | obj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 you | case |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 share | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 fear | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | Jack's mother and Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bake in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | my cake | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | my hen | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | Jack | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | my fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 6 | meet a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Jack | fortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | not fear in a quote | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | is in a quote | future | Jack | with Jack's mother and Mother = mother; share, soon property | 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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