Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 39
Steady now, we'll rest when we get under the big tree yonder."
Who acts: we · What happens: rest, get · To what, where: big tree
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Steady | steady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rest | compound |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Steady | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Steady | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 rest | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 rest | aux |
| 6 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 get | advmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rest | advcl |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 14 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rest | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | future | we | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present | we | the big tree | yonder property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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