Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 35

Now the black calf had just been slaughtered, and was hanging on the hook; but it got off the hook alive and well and followed her; and the oxen, though they were ploughing, trailed the plough with them and did her bidding.

Who acts: calf, oxen, Geringer · What happens: slaughter, hang, get off, follow, plough, trail · To what, where: black calf, hook, Geringer, plough, bidding

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calf, oxen, Geringer), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 calf	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 calf	det
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 calf	amod
4	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slaughtered	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slaughtered	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 slaughtered	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 slaughtered	aux:pass
8	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hanging	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hanging	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hanging	aux
12	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 slaughtered	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 hook	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hook	det
15	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hanging	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 got	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 got	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slaughtered	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	22 hook	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hook	det
22	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obl
23	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 got	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 well	cc
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 alive	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 followed	cc
27	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 got	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 followed	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 oxen	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 oxen	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 oxen	det
32	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slaughtered	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ploughing	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 ploughing	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 ploughing	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 ploughing	aux
37	ploughing	plough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 slaughtered	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 trailed	punct
39	trailed	trail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 ploughing	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 plough	det
41	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 trailed	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 plough	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 did	cc
45	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 trailed	conj
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 bidding	nmod:poss
47	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 did	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slaughtered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slaughter	past · perfect · passive		the black calf		the oxen obl	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	hang	past · progressive			the hook		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hook=Location
3	get off	past	calf	the hook		alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hook=Stimulus
4	follow	past	calf not said here	Geringer			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	plough	past · progressive	oxen = ox				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	trail	past		the plough		with oxen = ox	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme
7	do	past		Geringer's bidding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
8	bid		Geringer				nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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.

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