Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 93

Jack put it all in the two ends of a sack and laid it across Neddy's back, and all took the road in their hands.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: put, lay, take · To what, where: breakfast, two ends, back, road, hands

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), 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	8 ends	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 ends	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ends	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ends	nummod
8	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sack	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sack	det
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ends	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laid	cc
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	obj
15	across	across	ADP	_	18 back	case
16	Neddy	Neddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 back	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Neddy	case
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 took	advmod
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 road	det
24	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hands	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	past	Jack	breakfast		in the two ends of a sack	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in end=Destination
2	lay	past	Jack not said here	breakfast	Neddy's back		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result
3	take	past	Jack not said here	the road	comrades's hands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent road=Value in hand=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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