Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 5

His mother came along with him to the yard gate, and says she, "Jack, which would you rather have, half the cake and half the hen with my blessing, or the whole of 'em with my curse?"

Who acts: mother, Jack, my · What happens: come along, say, have, bless, curse · To what, where: yard gate, widow · 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 (mother, Jack, my), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gate	compound
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 says	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Jack	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Jack	punct
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 have	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Jack	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cake	punct
25	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	27 cake	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cake	det
27	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Jack	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hen	cc
29	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	31 hen	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hen	det
31	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Jack	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 blessing	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 blessing	nmod:poss
34	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hen	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 whole	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 whole	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 whole	det
38	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 says	ccomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 'em	case
40	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 whole	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 curse	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 curse	nmod:poss
43	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 whole	obl
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	38 whole	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 whole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come along	past	Jack's mother		the yard gate	with Jack; along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
2	say speech: ask	present		widow		Jack and half cake and half hen with my blessing obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	have in a quote	would	Jack and half cake and half hen with my blessing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bless in a quote		my				nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent
5	curse in a quote		my				nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=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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