Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 61
The master caught himself in time, but he was so stomached, he said nothing.
Who acts: master · What happens: catch, stomach, say · To what, where: master, nothing · 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 (master), 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 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stomached | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stomached | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stomached | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stomached | aux:pass |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 stomached | advmod |
| 12 | stomached | stomach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the master | master | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | stomach | past · passive | master | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | master | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=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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