Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 70
"Jack, you vagabone, do you see what the cows are at?"
Who acts: you, Jack · What happens: vagabone, see
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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 see | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vagabone | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 vagabone | nsubj |
| 5 | vagabone | vagabone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jack | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jack | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cows | det |
| 12 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 at | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 at | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vagabone in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · do-support | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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