Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 65
Jack, ploughed away like a good workman all the rest of the day.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: plough away · To what, where: rest
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), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ploughed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jack | punct |
| 3 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 ploughed | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 workman | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 workman | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 workman | amod |
| 8 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ploughed | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 rest | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rest | det |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ploughed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rest | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ploughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plough away | past | Jack | all rest of the day | like a good workman; away property | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent 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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