Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 52
Next morning early, Jack asked how he'd be employed that day. "
Who acts: Jack · What happens: ask, employ · To what, where: Jack · 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), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 employed | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 employed | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 employed | aux:pass |
| 11 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 employed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Jack | morning | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | employ | would · passive | Jack | day | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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