Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 30
"We're going to seek our fortune till the harvest comes in, and you may join us if you like."
Who acts: We, harvest, you · What happens: go, seek, come in, join, like · To what, where: fortune, us
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 (We, harvest, you), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 seek | mark |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seek | obj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 comes | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 harvest | det |
| 11 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 comes | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 join | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 join | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 join | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 join | aux |
| 18 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seek | conj |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 join | obj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 like | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 like | nsubj |
| 22 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 join | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | We | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | our fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in in a quote | present | the harvest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | join in a quote | may | you | us | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 5 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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