Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 10

All they could say had no effect: he started off for the Townland of Mischance, and in a twelvemonth he was back just as miserable and helpless as his brother.

Who acts: brothers, eldest · What happens: say, have, start off, be · To what, where: effect, twelvemonth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, eldest), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 had	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 All	acl:relcl
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 effect	det
7	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 started	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 started	nsubj
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 started	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 Townland	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Townland	det
14	Townland	Townland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 started	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Mischance	case
16	Mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Townland	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 back	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 back	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 twelvemonth	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 twelvemonth	det
21	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 back	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 back	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 back	cop
24	back	back	ADV	_	27 miserable	advmod
25	just	just	ADV	_	27 miserable	advmod
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 miserable	case
27	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 started	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 helpless	cc
29	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 miserable	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 brother	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brother	nmod:poss
32	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 miserable	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	brothers = brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	past		no effect			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
3	start off	past	eldest = eld			for the Townland of Mischance	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	past	eldest = eld		a twelvemonth	back 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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