Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 92
"And to be sure it isn't pleasing to me, you aggravating goose-cap!"
Who acts: place, you · What happens: be, not please, aggravate · To what, where: Jack, goose cap · 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 (place, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sure | cc |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sure | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pleasing | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleasing | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 pleasing | advmod |
| 9 | pleasing | please | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pleasing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 aggravating | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 aggravating | nsubj |
| 14 | aggravating | aggravate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sure | parataxis |
| 15 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cap | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 goose | punct |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 aggravating | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 aggravating | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 aggravating | 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 | not please in a quote | present · progressive | place | Jack | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | aggravate in a quote | gerund | you | goose cap | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cap=Experiencer |
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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