Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 98
Says the master when he came out, "Go, Jack, and look for the heifers, and bring them home."
Who acts: master · What happens: say, come out, look, bring · To what, where: master, Go, heifers · 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 (master), 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 | Says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Says | obj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 came | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 master | acl:relcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Jack | punct |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Go | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 look | cc |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Says | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 heifers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heifers | det |
| 18 | heifers | heifer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 look | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 look | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 bring | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the master | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come out | past | master | Go and Jack | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | for the heifers | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for heifer=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | heifers = heifer | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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