Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 132
"Sorrow on me that ever I had the bad luck to meet with you."
Who acts: Jack · What happens: have, meet · To what, where: Sorrow
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 | _ | 2 Sorrow | punct |
| 2 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Sorrow | nmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | obj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sorrow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 luck | det |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luck | amod |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 meet | mark |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 luck | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 meet | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorrow | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Jack | Sorrow on me | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | with you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent |
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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