Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 43

Jack stretched himself on a bunch of dry grass, the ass lay near him, the dog and cat lay in the ass's warm lap, and the cock went to roost in the next tree.

Who acts: Jack, ass, dog, cock · What happens: stretch, lie, lay, go, roost · To what, where: Jack, bunch, warm lap, next tree

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, ass, dog, cock), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 stretched	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bunch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bunch	det
6	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stretched	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grass	amod
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bunch	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ass	det
12	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	conj
14	near	near	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cat	cc
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dog	conj
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 lap	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ass	det
24	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lap	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 ass	case
26	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lap	amod
27	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cock	det
31	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 roost	mark
34	roost	roost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 went	xcomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 tree	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tree	det
37	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tree	amod
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 roost	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	Jack	Jack	a bunch of dry grass		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	lie	past	the ass			near Jack	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location
3	lay	present	the dog and cat		the ass's warm lap		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in lap=Destination
4	go	past	the cock				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	roost	to-infinitive	the cock not said here		the next tree		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

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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