Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 28
They weren't sorry to have him away from the kitchen at dinner time.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: 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 (mother), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sorry | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 kitchen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kitchen | det |
| 11 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 away | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | compound |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | mother | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | mother not said here | Jack | time | away property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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