Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 80
"You may say chance," says he, "and it's itself is the poor chance all out.
Who acts: You, chance, boy · What happens: say, be · To what, where: chance, poor chance · 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 (You, chance, 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 | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 chance | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 itself | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 itself | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 itself | cop |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 he | conj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 chance | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chance | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chance | amod |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 out | advmod |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 chance | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | may | You | chance | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chance=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | chance | chance | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | boy | the poor chance | out property | 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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