Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 71

"That's a good boy!" said they all, and away he went.

Who acts: That, good boy, boy · What happens: be, say, go · To what, where: good boy · 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 (That, good boy, boy), 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	_	6 boy	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 boy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 all	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
14	away	away	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a good boy		tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	a good boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	boy		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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