Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 12
He agreed with him for a year for twenty pounds, and the terms were the same.
Who acts: eldest, terms · What happens: agree, be
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 (eldest, terms), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 pounds | case |
| 9 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pounds | nummod |
| 10 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 year | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 same | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 same | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 terms | det |
| 14 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 same | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 same | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 same | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 agreed | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | eldest = eld | year | with Gray | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | the terms | same property | 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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