Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 2

The eldest and second eldest were cunning clever fellows, but they called the youngest Jack the Fool, because they thought he was no better than a simpleton.

Who acts: fellows, he · What happens: be, call, think, not be · To what, where: second eldest cunning clever fellows, youngest Jack · 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 (fellows, he), 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 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fellows	cc
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 fellows	amod
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 fellows	amod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fellows	cop
7	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellows	amod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fellows	amod
9	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eldest	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 called	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 eldest	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Jack	det
15	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 Jack	amod
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fool	det
18	Fool	Fool	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Jack	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 thought	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 called	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 better	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 better	cop
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 better	advmod
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 thought	ccomp
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 simpleton	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 simpleton	det
29	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 better	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eldest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		second eldest cunning clever fellows			tree rules
2	call	past	fellows = fellow		the youngest Jack		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient
3	think speech: other	past	fellows = fellow				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	past	he			than a simpleton; good property	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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