Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 89
"What would bring them there?"
What happens: bring · To what, where: 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: 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 | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 bring | obj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bring | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | would | heifers = heifer | there | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme they=Destination |
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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