Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 95
He gave a cross look to the visitors, and says he to Jack, "What do you want here, my fine fellow? there isn't room for you all."
Who acts: Dunlavin, Jack, room · What happens: give, look, say, want, not be · To what, where: cross, Dunlavin, Jack · 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 (Dunlavin, Jack, room), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cross | det |
| 4 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 visitors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 visitors | det |
| 8 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 says | cc |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Jack | case |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 want | obj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 want | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 want | nsubj |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 want | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fellow | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fellow | amod |
| 25 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 want | parataxis |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 is | expl |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 is | advmod |
| 30 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 room | nmod |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 is | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Dunlavin | a cross | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | Dunlavin not said here | to the visitors | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to visitor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | present | Dunlavin | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present · do-support | Jack | here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not be in a quote | present | room for you | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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