Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 27

Next day Jack was to go clamp turf on the bog.

What happens: be · To what, where: bog

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: 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 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl:unmarked
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	clamp	clamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turf	compound
8	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bog	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bog	det
11	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the bog	day	go 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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