Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 53
You are to be holding the plough in that fallow, outside the paddock."
Who acts: You · What happens: hold · To what, where: plough, fallow
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 holding | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 holding | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 holding | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 holding | aux |
| 5 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plough | det |
| 7 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holding | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fallow | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 fallow | det |
| 10 | fallow | fallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holding | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 paddock | punct |
| 12 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 14 paddock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 paddock | det |
| 14 | paddock | paddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 holding | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 holding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · progressive | You | the plough | that fallow | outside the paddock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plough=Theme in fallow=Location |
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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