Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 138
The master bawled and roared, but there was no help at hand.
Who acts: master, help · What happens: bawl, roar, be
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 (master, help), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bawled | nsubj |
| 3 | bawled | bawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 roared | cc |
| 5 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bawled | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bawled | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 help | det |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 help | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bawl speech: other | past | the master | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | roar | past | the master not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no help at hand | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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