Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 29
He didn't find his breakfast very heavy on his stomach; so he said to the mistress, "I think, ma'am, it will be better for me to get my dinner now, and not lose time coming home from the bog."
Who acts: Jack, breakfast, time · What happens: not find, say, think, be, get, not lose · To what, where: breakfast, mistress, ma'am, dinner, bog · 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, breakfast, time), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 find | advmod |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 heavy | advmod |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 breakfast | amod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stomach | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heavy | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mistress | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mistress | det |
| 18 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ma'am | punct |
| 24 | ma'am | ma'am | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 think | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 better | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 better | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 better | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 better | cop |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 think | ccomp |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 get | nsubj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 better | advcl |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 35 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obj |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 get | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lose | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lose | cc |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 lose | advmod |
| 40 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | conj |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lose | obj |
| 42 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 time | acl |
| 43 | home | home | ADV | _ | 42 coming | advmod |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 bog | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 bog | det |
| 46 | bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 coming | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | past · do-support | Jack | Jack's breakfast | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | the mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mistress=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Jack | ma'am | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | breakfast | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | Jack | my dinner | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | not lose in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | gerund | time not said here | the bog | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bog=Initial_Location |
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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