Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 3
The eldest got tired of staying at home, and said he'd go look for service.
Who acts: eldest, he · What happens: get, stay, say, go, look · To what, where: home · 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 (eldest, 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 | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 staying | mark |
| 6 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tired | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 staying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 service | case |
| 17 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the eldest | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | the eldest not said here | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the eldest not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | would | he | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | he not said here | for service | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for service=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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