Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 72
"To be sure, you lazy sluggard, I do?"
Who acts: you, master · What happens: be, sluggard, do · 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 (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 4 sure | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sluggard | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sluggard | nsubj |
| 7 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sluggard | amod |
| 8 | sluggard | sluggard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sluggard in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | master | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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