--- title: "Faith, I'm going to seek my fortune till harvest comes in, God bles… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Faith, I'm going to seek my fortune till harvest comes in, God bless it!" Who acts: Jack, Faith, God. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/) / 15 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 15 "Faith, I'm going to seek my fortune till harvest comes in, God bless it!" **Who acts:** Jack, Faith, God · **What happens:** go, seek, come in, bless · **To what, where:** fortune This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, Faith, God), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:18:15 # text = "Faith, I'm going to seek my fortune till harvest comes in, God bless it!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 till till ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Jack | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | my fortune | | | till harvest | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | | 3 | **come in** *in a quote* | present | Faith | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | fortune | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/16/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/)