Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 101

The heifers were all in the paddock before sunset.

Who acts: heifers · What happens: be · To what, where: paddock

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heifers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heifers	det
2	heifers	heifer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paddock	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paddock	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 paddock	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 paddock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 paddock	det
7	paddock	paddock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 sunset	case
9	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paddock	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 paddock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the heifers			the paddock	sunset	all property	tree rules

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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