Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 32
But Jack kept his seat, and never drew rein till bread, butter, and milk went down the red lane.
Who acts: Jack, milk · What happens: keep, not draw, go down · To what, where: seat, rein, red lane
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 (Jack, milk), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 kept | cc |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 seat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drew | cc |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 drew | advmod |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 10 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 bread | case |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 butter | punct |
| 14 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bread | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 lane | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lane | det |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lane | amod |
| 22 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Jack | Jack's seat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not draw | past | Jack not said here | rein | till bread and butter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme | |||
| 3 | go down | past | milk | the red lane | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient lane=Extent |
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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