Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 137

When the company heard the rights of the business, they were only too eager to see the job done.

Who acts: company, rights, job · What happens: hear, be, see, do · To what, where: rights, job

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 (company, rights, job), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 company	det
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eager	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rights	det
6	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 business	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 business	det
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rights	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eager	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eager	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 eager	advmod
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 eager	advmod
15	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 eager	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 job	det
19	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 see	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 eager	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the company	the rights of the business		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus
2	is	past	rights = right		eager property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	rights = right not said here	the job		tree rules
4	do	participle	the job not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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