Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 64
Then they lay down to rest;--Jack in the bed, the ass in the stable, the dog on the door-mat, the cat by the fire, and the cock on the perch.
Who acts: hunger · What happens: lay down, rest · To what, where: Jack
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 (hunger), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rest | mark |
| 6 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Jack | punct |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bed | det |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ass | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ass | det |
| 15 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 stable | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stable | det |
| 18 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ass | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dog | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | appos |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 mat | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mat | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mat | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 door | punct |
| 26 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dog | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cat | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cat | det |
| 29 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mat | appos |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 fire | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fire | det |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cat | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cock | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cock | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cock | det |
| 36 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | parataxis |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 perch | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 perch | det |
| 39 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cock | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | present | hunger | Jack in the bed | then | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | hunger not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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