Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 105
"Everything must have a beginning, master," said Jack, "and a thing well begun is half done.
Who acts: Everything, Jack · What happens: have, say, begin, do · To what, where: beginning, thing · 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 (Everything, Jack), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 beginning | det |
| 6 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beginning | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 done | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 begun | advmod |
| 19 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 thing | acl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 done | advmod |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | must | Everything | a beginning and master | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginning=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | participle | a thing not said here | well property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · passive | a thing | half property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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