Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 62
"Go on and redden the ground now, you knave, as other ploughmen do."
Who acts: you, other ploughmen · What happens: go on, redden, knave, do · To what, where: ground
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, other ploughmen), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 redden | cc |
| 5 | redden | redden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 redden | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 redden | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knave | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 knave | nsubj |
| 11 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ploughmen | amod |
| 15 | ploughmen | ploughman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | redden in a quote | present | you not said here | the ground | now | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | |||
| 3 | knave in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | other ploughmen | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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