Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 117
The next night the master was going to a wedding; and says he to Jack, before he set out: "I'll leave at midnight, and I wish you, to come and be with me home, for fear I might be overtaken with the drink.
Who acts: master, I · What happens: go, say, set out, leave, wish, come · To what, where: next night, master, Jack, I · 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 (master, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 master | det |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 night | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wedding | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wedding | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 says | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Jack | case |
| 16 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 says | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 set | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 leave | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 leave | aux |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 midnight | case |
| 28 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leave | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wish | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wish | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 wish | nsubj |
| 32 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 leave | conj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 wish | iobj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 come | mark |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wish | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 me | cc |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 me | cop |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 me | case |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 come | obl |
| 41 | home | home | ADV | _ | 36 come | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fear | punct |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 fear | case |
| 44 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 come | parataxis |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 overtaken | nsubj |
| 46 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 overtaken | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 overtaken | aux:pass |
| 48 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 fear | acl:relcl |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 drink | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 drink | det |
| 51 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 overtaken | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the master | the next night not said here | to a wedding | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location night=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | master | Jack | night | tree rules | |||
| 3 | set out | past | master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | future | I | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | present | I | Jack | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | infinitive | with me | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | overtake in a quote | might · passive | I | with the drink | 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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