Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 31
"And that I'll do with a heart and a half," says the cat, "and thank'ee for asking me."'
Who acts: cat, thank'ee · What happens: do, say, ask · To what, where: cat · 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 (cat, thank'ee), 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 | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 says | cc |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 says | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 half | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 half | det |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 heart | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cat | det |
| 17 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cat | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 cat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thank'ee | cc |
| 21 | thank'ee | thank'ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cat | conj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 asking | mark |
| 23 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 thank'ee | acl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 asking | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | the cat and thank'ee = cat | with a heart and a half | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the cat and thank'ee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | thank'ee not said here | the cat and thank'ee = cat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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