Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 125

He sputtered it out, and cried, "Man o' the house, isn't it a great shame for you to have any one in the room that would do such a nasty thing?"

Who acts: master, you, room · What happens: sputter out, cry, not be, have, do · To what, where: sup, Man, great shame, one, room, nasty thing · 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, you, room), 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 sputtered	nsubj
2	sputtered	sputter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sputtered	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sputtered	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sputtered	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Man	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Man	punct
10	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
11	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	14 house	case
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 house	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Man	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shame	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shame	cop
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 shame	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 shame	expl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shame	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shame	amod
21	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 shame	csubj
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 room	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 room	det
30	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 one	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 do	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 room	acl:relcl
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 thing	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 thing	det
36	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 thing	amod
37	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sputtered	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sputtered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sputter out	past	master	sup		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	master not said here	Man of the house		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	present		a great shame		tree rules
4	have in a quote	to-infinitive	you	any one	the room	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	do in a quote	would	the room	such nasty thing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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