Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 94
I'm afraid it's sorrow that's on you for hiring me at all."
Who acts: I, place, sorrow · What happens: be, hire · To what, where: sorrow, me, all
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 (I, place, sorrow), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sorrow | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrow | cop |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 afraid | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 's | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 's | obl |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 hiring | mark |
| 12 | hiring | hire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 's | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hiring | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 hiring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | place | sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | sorrow | on you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on you=Location | ||||
| 4 | hire | gerund | sorrow not said here | me | all | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme at all=Asset |
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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