Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 47
"It's daybreak that's the matter: don't you see light yonder?"
Who acts: matter, daybreak, you · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: daybreak, matter, light
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 (matter, daybreak, 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 daybreak | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 daybreak | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 daybreak | cop |
| 4 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 matter | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 matter | det |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daybreak | acl:relcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 daybreak | conj |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 daybreak | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 daybreak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | matter | daybreak | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | daybreak | the matter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you | light | yonder property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
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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