Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 79

Now, understand me; don't let a cow go out of the field nor into the wheat the rest of the day."

Who acts: you, cow · What happens: understand, not let, go out · To what, where: me, cow, field

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, cow), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 understand	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 understand	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 field	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 field	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 field	det
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 wheat	cc
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 wheat	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wheat	det
19	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 field	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wheat	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rest	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understand	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	understand	imperative	you not said here	me	now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	not let	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	a cow		tree rules
3	go out	infinitive	a cow not said here	the field nor the wheat the rest of the day		tree rules

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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