Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 7
"Well, then, Jack," says she, "here's the whole lot of 'em with my thousand blessings along with them."
Who acts: Jack, Damer, my · What happens: say, be, bless · 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, Damer, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 Jack | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jack | punct |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jack | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jack | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 here | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 she | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 says | ccomp |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lot | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lot | amod |
| 17 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 here | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 'em | case |
| 19 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lot | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 blessings | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 blessings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 blessings | nummod |
| 23 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lot | nmod |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 blessings | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 in a quote | present | Damer | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bless in a quote | my | along mother | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent along=obl |
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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