Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 81

Ah, will any of you pull a bed of dry grass for me?

Who acts: any · What happens: pull · To what, where: bed

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 (any), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 pull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pull	aux
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 pull	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 any	nmod
7	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bed	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pull	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 grass	case
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grass	amod
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pull	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	future	any	a bed of dry grass				for me	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Theme for i=Beneficiary

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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