Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 123
Well, he was very vexed, but he thought better to say nothing.
Who acts: master · What happens: vex, think, say · To what, where: master, nothing · 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), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 vexed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 vexed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 vexed | advmod |
| 6 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | advcl |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 thought | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | xcomp |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 say | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | master | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | master | good property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | master not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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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