Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 38

"We're going to seek our fortune till the harvest comes in; you may join our party if you like, and sit on Neddy's crupper when your legs and wings are tired."

Who acts: We, harvest, you, legs · What happens: go, seek, come in, join, like, sit · To what, where: fortune, party, crupper

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, legs), 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	_	17 join	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 join	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 join	aux
17	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seek	conj
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 party	nmod:poss
19	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 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	17 join	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sit	cc
25	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 join	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 crupper	case
27	Neddy	Neddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 crupper	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Neddy	case
29	crupper	crupper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	obl
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 tired	mark
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 legs	nmod:poss
32	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tired	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wings	cc
34	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 legs	conj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 tired	cop
36	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sit	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	our party			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=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
6	sit in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		Neddy's crupper		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crupper=Location
7	is in a quote	present	your legs and wings			tired 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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