Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 66
In a day or two the master bade him go and mind the cows in a field that had half of it under young corn. "
Who acts: master bade, field · What happens: go, mind, have · To what, where: cows, field, half, young corn
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 bade, field), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 two | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bade | det |
| 7 | master | mast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 bade | amod |
| 8 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mind | cc |
| 12 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cows | det |
| 14 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mind | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 field | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 field | det |
| 17 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mind | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 field | acl:relcl |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 half | nmod |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 corn | case |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 corn | amod |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | the master bade | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mind | infinitive | the master bade not said here | the cows | a field | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | a field | half of bade | young corn | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
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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