Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 48
"I see a light indeed," says Jack, "but it's from a candle it's coming, and not from the sun. As you've roused us we may as well go over, and ask for lodging."
Who acts: Jack, light, you, we · What happens: see, say, be, come, rouse, go over · To what, where: light, candle, sun., us · 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, light, you, we), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jack | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Jack | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 candle | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 candle | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 candle | cop |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 candle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 candle | det |
| 18 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 coming | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 coming | aux |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 candle | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sun. | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sun. | cc |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 sun. | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 sun. | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun. | det |
| 27 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 28 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 roused | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 roused | nsubj |
| 30 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 roused | aux |
| 31 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 sun. | acl:relcl |
| 32 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 roused | iobj |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 go | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 go | aux |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 37 go | cc |
| 36 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 as | fixed |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 roused | ccomp |
| 38 | over | over | ADV | _ | 37 go | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ask | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ask | cc |
| 41 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 lodging | case |
| 43 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ask | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Jack | a light | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | light | a candle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · progressive | light | a candle not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location candle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rouse in a quote | present · perfect | you | the sun. not said here | us | tree rules | |||
| 6 | go over in a quote | may | we | over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | for lodging | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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