Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 233

A shoemaker had a house near the well, and about mid-day on the morrow, the shoemaker asked his wife to go for a drink for him out of the well.

Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: have, ask, go · To what, where: house, well, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shoemaker	det
2	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 well	det
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 mid-day	case
12	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 morrow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morrow	det
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mid-day	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mid-day	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shoemaker	det
18	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 asked	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 drink	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 drink	det
26	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 go	obl
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 well	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 well	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 well	det
32	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	a shoemaker	a house		the well		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the shoemaker		shoemaker's wife		about mid-day on the morrow	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive				the well	for a drink; for shoemaker	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for drink=Theme out well=Location

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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