Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 34
"At him, good dog!" says Jack, and the word wasn't out of his mouth when Coley was in full sweep after the Red Dog.
Who acts: Jack, word, Coley · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: mouth, full sweep · 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, word, Coley), 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 | _ | 3 him | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 him | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 him | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 him | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mouth | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mouth | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mouth | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 mouth | cop |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 mouth | advmod |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | parataxis |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 sweep | advmod |
| 22 | Coley | Coley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sweep | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sweep | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sweep | case |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sweep | amod |
| 26 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mouth | conj |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 Dog | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Dog | det |
| 29 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Dog | flat |
| 30 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sweep | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | the word | ass's mouth and full sweep | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Coley | full sweep | after the Red Dog | 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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