Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 10

At last his road led by the side of a bog, and there was a poor ass up to his shoulders near a big bunch of grass he was striving to come at.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: lead, be, strive, come · To what, where: last road, poor ass, grass

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 road	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 road	amod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 road	nmod:poss
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ass	obl
5	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 road	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 led	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bog	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bog	det
11	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ass	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ass	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ass	amod
18	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 ass	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 shoulders	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulders	nmod:poss
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ass	nmod
23	near	near	ADP	_	26 bunch	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bunch	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bunch	amod
26	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shoulders	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 grass	case
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bunch	nmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 striving	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 striving	aux
31	striving	strive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 grass	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 come	mark
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 striving	xcomp
34	at	at	ADP	_	33 come	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	participle		Jack's last road not said here		by the side of a bog	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by side=Destination
2	is a	past		a poor ass	Jack's last road	to Jack's shoulders near a big bunch of grass	tree rules
3	strive	past · progressive	Jack	grass not said here			tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	Jack not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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