Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 79

"Well, well," cried them all, when he came within hearing, "any chance of our property?"

Who acts: boy, property · What happens: cry, come, chance · To what, where: head, chance

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 (boy, property), 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	_	7 cried	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	7 cried	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 them	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
14	within	within	ADP	_	15 hearing	case
15	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chance	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 chance	punct
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 chance	det
19	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 property	case
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 property	nmod:poss
22	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chance	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		head		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	come	past	boy	any chance of our property	within hearing	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chance in a quote		our property			nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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