Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 108
"An' sure to mend the path as you told me.
Who acts: you · What happens: mend, tell · To what, where: path, Jack · 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 (you), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sure | det |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 mend | mark |
| 6 | mend | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mend | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mend | advcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mend in a quote | to-infinitive | the path | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | you | Jack | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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