Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 34
So you may as well give me my supper, and be done with the day's trouble."
Who acts: you, day · What happens: give, do, trouble · To what, where: supper, me
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 (you, day), 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 | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 6 give | cc |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 supper | nmod:poss |
| 9 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 done | cc |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 give | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 trouble | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 day | case |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | may | you | my supper | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient supper=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | infinitive · passive | with the day's trouble | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | trouble | the day | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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