Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 41
"Jack, you anointed scoundrel, what do you mean?" "
Who acts: Jack, you · What happens: anoint, mean · To what, where: scoundrel
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, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 anointed | punct |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 anointed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 anointed | nsubj |
| 5 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anointed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 mean | obj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 scoundrel | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 anointed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 anointed | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 anointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anoint in a quote | past | Jack | scoundrel | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scoundrel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | scoundrel | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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