Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 88
"Sure, I'm looking for the heifers, poor things!"
Who acts: Jack · What happens: look
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 2 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 6 looking | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sure | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looking | aux |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 heifers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heifers | det |
| 9 | heifers | heifer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 things | punct |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heifers | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · progressive | Jack | for the heifers and poor things | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for heifer=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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