Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 97
"Oh, faith I will, sir, with a heart and a half;" and by the time the farmer came out from his dinner, Jack had the roof better than it was before, for he made the boy give him new straw.
Who acts: farmer, Jack, roof, boy · What happens: come out, have, be, make, give · To what, where: time, dinner, roof, new straw, Jack
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 (farmer, Jack, roof, boy), 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 | _ | 4 faith | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 faith | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 will | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 faith | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sir | punct |
| 8 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faith | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heart | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 heart | det |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faith | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 half | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 half | det |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 heart | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 " | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 faith | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 time | cc |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 " | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 farmer | det |
| 23 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 dinner | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 28 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 30 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 came | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 roof | det |
| 33 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 34 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 had | xcomp |
| 35 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 38 before | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 before | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 before | cop |
| 38 | before | before | ADV | _ | 34 better | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 made | punct |
| 40 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 42 made | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 made | nsubj |
| 42 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 had | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 boy | det |
| 44 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 give | nsubj |
| 45 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 made | ccomp |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 give | iobj |
| 47 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 straw | amod |
| 48 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 give | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 faith | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the farmer | the time not said here | farmer's dinner | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result | ||
| 2 | have | past | Jack | the roof | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | roof | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give | present | the boy | new straw | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient straw=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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