Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 36

He called to speak to the master in the haggard, and said he, "What are servants asked to do in this country after aten their supper?"

Who acts: Jack, servants · What happens: call, speak, say, be, ask, do · To what, where: servants, country, supper · 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, servants), 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	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 speak	mark
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 master	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 master	det
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speak	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 haggard	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 haggard	det
10	haggard	haggard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 master	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 servants	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 servants	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 servants	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 servants	cop
19	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obl
20	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 servants	acl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 country	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 country	det
25	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obl
26	after	after	SCONJ	_	27 aten	mark
27	aten	aten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 do	advcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 supper	nmod:poss
29	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 aten	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	Jack				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Jack not said here			to the master in the haggard	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to master=Co-Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	Jack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present		servants			tree rules
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	participle		servants not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	servants not said here		this country		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	aten in a quote	infinitive	servants not said here	tales's supper			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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