Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 147
And six stout fellows saw himself and the master home, and waited in the parlour while he went up and brought down the two hundred guineas, and double wages for Jack himself.
Who acts: six stout fellows, Jack · What happens: see, wait, go up, bring down · To what, where: Jack, parlour, hundred guineas
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 (six stout fellows, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fellows | nummod |
| 3 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellows | amod |
| 4 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 master | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 himself | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 master | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waited | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waited | cc |
| 13 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 parlour | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parlour | det |
| 16 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waited | obl |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 went | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 waited | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 went | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 guineas | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 guineas | det |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hundred | compound |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 guineas | nummod |
| 27 | guineas | guinea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wages | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wages | cc |
| 30 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wages | amod |
| 31 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 Jack | case |
| 33 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 wages | nmod |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 Jack | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | six stout fellows | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | six stout fellows not said here | the parlour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in parlour=Location | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | Jack | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | bring down | participle | Jack not said here | the hundred guineas | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent guinea=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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