Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 82
The next day three heifers were missing, and the master bade Jack go in search of them.
Who acts: next day, master bade · What happens: be, go, search · To what, where: search, heifers
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 (next day, master bade), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 missing | nsubj |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 heifers | nummod |
| 5 | heifers | heifer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 missing | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 missing | cop |
| 7 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bade | det |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bade | compound |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bade | appos |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 missing | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 search | case |
| 16 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 search | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 missing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the next day | missing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | the master bade | search of heifers | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 3 | search | heifers = heifer | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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