--- title: "I see a light indeed," says Jack, "but it's from a candle it's comi… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "I see a light indeed," says Jack, "but it's from a candle it's coming, and not from the sun. As you've roused us we may as well go over, and ask for lodging." Who acts: Jack, light, you, we. 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As you've roused us we may as well go over, and ask for lodging." **Who acts:** Jack, light, you, we · **What happens:** see, say, be, come, rouse, go over · **To what, where:** light, candle, sun., us · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, light, you, we), 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:pg7885:18:48 # text = "I see a light indeed," says Jack, "but it's from a candle it's coming, and not from the sun. As you've roused us we may as well go over, and ask for lodging." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 28 As as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 roused rouse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 37 cc _ _ 36 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 fixed _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 38 over over ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 lodging lodging NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Jack | a light | | | | indeed *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jack | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | light | | | a candle | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | light | a candle *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location candle=Theme | | 5 | **rouse** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | the sun. *not said here* | us | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go over** *in a quote* | may | we | | | | | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | | | for lodging | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/49/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/)