Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 111
"It's a pity you didn't say so, master.
Who acts: path, you · What happens: be, not say · To what, where: pity · 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 (path, 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 | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pity | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 say | advmod |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pity | acl:relcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 say | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 master | punct |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pity | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | path | a pity and master | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | you | a pity and master not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pity=Topic |
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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