Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 109
Says you, 'Jack, make a path with the foot of the sheep.'"
What happens: say, make · To what, where: you, 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: 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 | Says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Says | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Says | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jack | punct |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Says | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foot | det |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 path | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sheep | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sheep | det |
| 15 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 foot | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Jack | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset path=Product |
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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