Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 43
The mistress, God bless her, is after giving me my breakfast, dinner, and supper, and yourself told me that bed was the next thing.
Who acts: mistress, yourself, bed · What happens: bless, give, tell, be · To what, where: mistress, breakfast, me, next thing · 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, yourself, bed), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mistress | det |
| 2 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 God | punct |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mistress | appos |
| 5 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 God | parataxis |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bless | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mistress | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 giving | aux |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 giving | mark |
| 10 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 giving | iobj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 13 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giving | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dinner | punct |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breakfast | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 supper | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 supper | cc |
| 18 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breakfast | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 giving | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 thing | mark |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thing | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thing | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thing | det |
| 28 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thing | amod |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 giving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | infinitive | mistress | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | present · progressive | the mistress | my breakfast and dinner and supper | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient breakfast=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | yourself | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | bed | the next thing | 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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