Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 91
Well, before the sun shook his doublet next morning, Jack and his comrades were up and about.
Who acts: sun · What happens: shake up · To what, where: doublet
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 (sun), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 shook | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shook | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 shook | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shook | nsubj |
| 6 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 doublet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | doublet | doublet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shook | obj |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doublet | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Jack | punct |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 doublet | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 up | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 15 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 up | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 up | cop |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 shook | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 about | cc |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 up | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake up | past | the sun | captain's doublet next morning | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent doublet=Patient |
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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