Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 41
We'll go into the wood, and make our bed on the long grass."
Who acts: We · What happens: go, make · To what, where: wood, bed, long 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 grass | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grass | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grass | amod |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | We | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | present | our bed | the long grass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=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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