Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 40
"Well, well," says Jack, "the worse luck now the better another time, and it's only a summer night after all.
Who acts: Jack, sun · What happens: say, be · To what, where: summer night · 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, sun), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 says | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 luck | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 luck | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 luck | det |
| 12 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 luck | amod |
| 13 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Jack | appos |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 better | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 better | det |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 luck | conj |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 better | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 night | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 night | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 night | nsubj |
| 22 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 night | cop |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 night | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 night | det |
| 25 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 night | compound |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 all | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 night | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | is a in a quote | present | sun | a summer night | after all | 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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