Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 50

"Easy, boys!" says Jack: "walk on your tippy toes till we see what sort of people we have to deal with."

Who acts: Jack, we, people · What happens: say, walk, see, have, deal, sort · To what, where: tippy toes, sort, people · 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, we, people), 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	_	2 Easy	punct
2	Easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boys	punct
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Easy	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Easy	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Easy	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	_	11 walk	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 toes	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 toes	nmod:poss
14	tippy	tippy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 toes	amod
15	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 walk	obl
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 walk	advcl
19	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	20 sort	det
20	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 people	case
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sort	nmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 people	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 deal	mark
26	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	26 deal	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk in a quote	infinitive			your tippy toes	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory
3	see in a quote	present	we	what sort of people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
4	have in a quote	present	we	people not said here		tree rules
5	deal in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	sort in a quote			people		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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