Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 76
Are you sorry for hiring me, master?"
Who acts: you · What happens: be, hire · To what, where: me
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), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorry | cop |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 hiring | mark |
| 5 | hiring | hire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sorry | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hiring | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hiring | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hire | gerund | you not said here | me | master obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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