Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 39
He went up on the stable-loft, stripped, and lay down, and some one that saw him told the master.
Who acts: Jack, one · What happens: go up, strip, lay down, see, tell · To what, where: stable loft, Jack, master · 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 (Jack, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 loft | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loft | det |
| 6 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loft | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 stable | punct |
| 8 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stripped | punct |
| 10 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 loft | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 master | det |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Jack | the stable loft | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | strip | participle | the stable loft not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | Jack not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | some one | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | some one | the master | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient |
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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