Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 127
Sure it's only myself that was thrown' them sheep's eyes at you, to remind you I was here, and that I wanted to drink the bride and bridegroom's health.
Who acts: sup, I · What happens: be, throw, remind, want, drink · To what, where: myself, you, bride · 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 (sup, 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 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 8 thrown | discourse |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 myself | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 myself | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 myself | advmod |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | aux:pass |
| 8 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 thrown | punct |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thrown | obj |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 sheep | case |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thrown | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 thrown | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remind | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 remind | mark |
| 18 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thrown | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 remind | iobj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 here | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 here | cop |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 remind | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wanted | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wanted | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 wanted | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 wanted | nsubj |
| 27 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 drink | mark |
| 29 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wanted | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bride | det |
| 31 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drink | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 health | cc |
| 33 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 health | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 bridegroom | case |
| 35 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bride | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sup | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | myself | at you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | you | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the bride and bridegroom's health | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient |
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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