Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 35
She gave him that, thinking he'd take it to the bog; but he fell to on the spot, and did not leave a scrap to tell tales on him; and the mistress was a little astonished.
Who acts: mistress, Jack · What happens: give, think, take, fall, not leave, tell · To what, where: that, Jack, supper, bog, spot, scrap · 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 (mistress, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thinking | punct |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thinking | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bog | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bog | det |
| 13 | bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fell | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 spot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spot | det |
| 21 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 leave | cc |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 leave | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 leave | advmod |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fell | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 scrap | det |
| 28 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leave | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 tell | mark |
| 30 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 leave | advcl |
| 31 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 tell | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tell | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 astonished | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 astonished | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mistress | det |
| 37 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 astonished | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 astonished | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 little | det |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 astonished | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gave | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | mistress | that | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | mistress not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | would | Jack | supper | the bog | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bog=Destination | |||
| 4 | fall | past | Jack | the spot | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spot=Location | ||||
| 5 | not leave | past · do-support | Jack not said here | a scrap | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | tales | on Jack | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||
| 7 | is | past | the mistress | a little obl:unmarked; astonished property | tree rules |
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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