Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 54

The master went over about nine o'clock to see what kind of a ploughman was Jack, and what did he see but the little boy driving the bastes, and the sock and coulter of the plough skimming along the sod, and Jack pulling ding-dong again' the horses.

Who acts: master, kind, little boy, Jack · What happens: go over, see, be, drive, pull · To what, where: nine o'clock, Jack, bastes, ding dong

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 (master, kind, little boy, Jack), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 nine	advmod
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 o'clock	nummod
7	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
10	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Jack	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 ploughman	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ploughman	det
14	ploughman	ploughman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Jack	cop
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 see	obj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 boy	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boy	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boy	amod
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	conj
27	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 boy	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bastes	det
29	bastes	baste	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 driving	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sock	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sock	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sock	det
33	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 coulter	cc
35	coulter	coulter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sock	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 skimming	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 skimming	det
38	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 skimming	compound
39	skimming	skimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 coulter	nmod
40	along	along	ADP	_	42 sod	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sod	det
42	sod	sod	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 skimming	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 pulling	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 pulling	cc
45	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 pulling	nsubj
46	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
47	ding	ding	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 dong	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 ding	punct
49	dong	dong	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 pulling	obj
50	again	again	ADV	_	46 pulling	advmod
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	53 horses	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 horses	det
53	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 pulling	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go over	past	the master	nine o'clock		over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the master not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	what kind of a ploughman	Jack			tree rules
4	see	past · do-support	master				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	drive	gerund	the little boy not said here	the bastes			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme baste=Trajectory
6	pull	gerund	Jack	ding dong	again	the horses obl	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dong=Theme

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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