Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 129
"I know that you are a great rascal; and where did you get the eyes?"
Who acts: Jack, you · What happens: know, be, get · To what, where: great rascal, eyes · 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 (Jack, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 rascal | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 rascal | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rascal | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rascal | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rascal | amod |
| 9 | rascal | rascal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 get | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eyes | det |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | a great rascal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | the eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |
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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