Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 25

They got outside the town, and sat down under an old wall, and Jack pulled out his bread and meat, and shared with the dog; and the ass made his dinner on a bunch of thistles.

Who acts: potatoes, Jack, ass · What happens: get, sit down, pull out, share, make · To what, where: old wall, bread, dinner, bunch

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 (potatoes, Jack, ass), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 wall	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wall	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wall	amod
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pulled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pulled	cc
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 pulled	nsubj
17	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 pulled	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bread	nmod:poss
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pulled	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 meat	cc
22	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bread	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shared	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shared	cc
25	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pulled	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 dog	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shared	obl:agent
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 made	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ass	det
32	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	nsubj
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 dinner	nmod:poss
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 bunch	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bunch	det
38	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 thistles	case
40	thistles	thistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 bunch	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	potatoes = potato			outside the town	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	sit down	past	potatoes = potato not said here		a old wall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wall=Location
3	pull out	past	Jack	Jack's bread and meat			tree rules
4	share	participle	Jack not said here				tree rules
5	make	past	the ass	Jack's dinner	a bunch of thistles		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dinner=Product

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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