Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 130
"An' where would I get em' but in the heads of your own sheep?
Who acts: Jack · What happens: get · To what, where: An
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), 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 | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 get | obl |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 An | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 get | advmod |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heads | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 heads | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heads | det |
| 13 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sheep | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sheep | amod |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heads | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | would | Jack | An | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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