Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 148
When he got home, he brought the summer along with him to the poor mother and the disabled brothers; and he was no more Jack the Fool in the people's mouths, but "Skin Churl Jack."
Who acts: Jack · What happens: get, bring, not be · To what, where: poor mother, more Jack
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 summer | det |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mother | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mother | amod |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brothers | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brothers | det |
| 19 | disabled | disabled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brothers | amod |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mother | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 Jack | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Jack | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 Jack | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Jack | cop |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 Jack | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 Jack | amod |
| 27 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Fool | det |
| 29 | Fool | Fool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Jack | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 mouths | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 people | det |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 people | case |
| 34 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Fool | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Jack | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 Jack | cc |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Skin | punct |
| 38 | Skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Churl | nmod:desc |
| 39 | Churl | Churl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Jack | compound |
| 40 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Jack | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 Jack | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Jack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Jack | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Jack | the poor mother and the disabled brothers | summer | with master; along property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mother=Destination | ||
| 3 | not is a | past | Jack | more Jack and the Fool in the people's mouths but Churl Jack | tree rules |
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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