Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 75
"Thousand murders!" cried he; "I wish I was out of this unlucky house."
Who acts: Thousand murders · What happens: cry, wish, be · To what, where: boy, unlucky house · 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 (Thousand murders), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 murders | nummod |
| 3 | murders | murder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 murders | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 murders | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 house | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 house | cop |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 house | det |
| 17 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wish | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Thousand murders | boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | Thousand murders = murder | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Thousand murders = murder | this unlucky house | tree rules |
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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