Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 31
So she brought out a good cake, and a print of butter, and a bottle of milk, thinking he'd take them away to the bog.
Who acts: dinner, Jack · What happens: bring out, think, take away, print · To what, where: good cake, orders, butter · 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 (dinner, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 brought | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cake | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cake | amod |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 print | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 print | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 print | det |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl | ||
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 butter | case |
| 13 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 print | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bottle | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bottle | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bottle | det |
| 17 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 print | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 milk | case |
| 19 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bottle | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thinking | punct |
| 21 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 brought | advcl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thinking | ccomp |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 take | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 bog | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bog | det |
| 29 | bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | past | dinner | a good cake | a print of butter obl | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | dinner not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take away | would | Jack | orders = order | to the bog; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | butter | nom print «communication transitive»: of=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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