Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 1

One fine day in harvest--it was indeed Lady-day in harvest, that everybody knows to be one of the greatest holidays in the year--Tom Fitzpatrick was taking a ramble through the ground, and went along the sunny side of a hedge; when all of a sudden he heard a clacking sort of noise a little before him in the hedge. "

Who acts: harvest, everybody, Tom, all · What happens: be, know, take, go, hear, clack · To what, where: Lady day, harvest, one, ramble, ground, sunny side

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harvest, everybody, Tom, all), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knows	obl:unmarked
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 harvest	case
5	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 day	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 day	cop
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 day	advmod
10	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 day	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Lady	punct
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 harvest	case
14	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 everybody	det
17	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 knows	nsubj
18	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	21 one	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 one	cop
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 knows	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 holidays	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 holidays	det
24	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 holidays	amod
25	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 year	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 year	det
28	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holidays	nmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 taking	punct
30	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 taking	nsubj
31	Fitzpatrick	Fitzpatrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Tom	flat
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 taking	aux
33	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 knows	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 ramble	det
35	ramble	ramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taking	obj
36	through	through	ADP	_	38 ground	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ground	det
38	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taking	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 went	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 taking	conj
42	along	along	ADP	_	45 side	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 side	det
44	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 side	amod
45	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 went	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 hedge	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 hedge	det
48	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 side	nmod
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 heard	punct
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 all	advmod
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 heard	nsubj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 sudden	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 sudden	det
54	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 all	nmod
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 heard	nsubj
56	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knows	parataxis
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 sort	det
58	clacking	clack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 sort	amod
59	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 heard	obj
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 noise	case
61	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 sort	nmod
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 little	det
63	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 heard	obl:unmarked
64	before	before	ADP	_	65 him	case
65	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 heard	obl
66	in	in	ADP	_	68 hedge	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 hedge	det
68	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 heard	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 knows	punct
70	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	harvest	Lady day	harvest		indeed property	tree rules
2	know	present	everybody			day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	to-infinitive		one			of the greatest holidays in the year	tree rules
4	take	past · progressive	Tom	a ramble	the ground			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ramble=Theme
5	go	past	Tom not said here		the sunny side of a hedge			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along side=Initial_Location
6	hear	past	all	a clacking sort of noise	the hedge	before Tom	a little obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
7	clack	gerund						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sort			noise				nom sort «cognition 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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