Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 96
Will you begin, if you please, and put in the thatch again, just as if you were doing it for your mother's cabin?"
Who acts: you · What happens: begin, put, do · To what, where: thatch
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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 begin | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 begin | nsubj |
| 3 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 put | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 begin | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 thatch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thatch | det |
| 13 | thatch | thatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 doing | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 doing | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 doing | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 doing | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 doing | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 doing | aux |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 put | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doing | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 cabin | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cabin | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 mother | case |
| 27 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 doing | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 begin | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | future | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | put a condition, not said to happen | participle | you | the thatch | again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in thatch=Destination | |||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | you | thatch | for your mother's cabin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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