Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 102

Next morning, says the master, "Jack, the path across the bog to the pasture is very bad; the sheep does be sinking in it every step; go and make the sheep's feet a good path."

Who acts: Next morning, master, sheep · What happens: say, be, sink, go, make · To what, where: step, bog, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Next morning, master, sheep), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 master	det
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bad	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Jack	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Jack	punct
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 master	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 path	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Jack	appos
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 bog	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bog	det
15	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 path	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 pasture	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pasture	det
18	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bog	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bad	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 bad	advmod
21	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sinking	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sheep	det
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sinking	nsubj
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sinking	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 sinking	aux
27	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 says	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sinking	obl
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 step	det
31	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sinking	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
33	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 make	cc
35	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 go	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sheep	det
37	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 feet	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 sheep	case
39	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 make	obj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 path	det
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 path	amod
42	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Next morning				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the master Jack			bad property	tree rules
3	sink in a quote	present · progressive · do-support	the sheep	every step	bog		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent step=Patient
4	go in a quote	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make in a quote	infinitive		the sheep's feet			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset foot=Beneficiary path=Product

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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