Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 70
"I think I'll venture back," says the captain, "and see if we can recover anything."
Who acts: I, captain, we · What happens: think, venture back, say, see, recover · To what, where: anything · 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 (I, captain, 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 venture | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 venture | aux |
| 6 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 venture | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 captain | det |
| 12 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 captain | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 captain | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | conj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 recover | mark |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 recover | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 recover | aux |
| 20 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | ccomp |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 recover | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | venture back in a quote | future | I | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | the captain not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | recover a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | we | anything | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
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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