Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 143
"Here goes then," said Jack with a grin, but the first little scar he gave, Churl roared out, "Stop your hand; I'll give the money."
Who acts: Jack, scar, first little scar · What happens: go, say, give, roar out, stop · To what, where: first little scar, hand, money · 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, scar, first little scar), 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 goes | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 goes | advmod |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 grin | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 grin | det |
| 11 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 roared | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 roared | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 scar | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 scar | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scar | amod |
| 17 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roared | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 scar | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scar | punct |
| 21 | Churl | Churl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 roared | nsubj |
| 22 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 roared | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Stop | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Stop | punct |
| 26 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 roared | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Stop | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 give | nsubj |
| 31 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 give | aux |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 money | det |
| 34 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | here | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | with a grin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past | scar | the first little scar not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roar out | past | the first little scar | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop in a quote | infinitive | the first little scar not said here | your hand | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hand=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | give in a quote | future | Jack | the money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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