Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 30

There now, while you're idling away your time here, there's the cows have broke into the oats, and are knocking the corn all about."

Who acts: you · What happens: idle away, break, knock · To what, where: cows, oats, corn

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 (you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 now	expl
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 broke	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 idling	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 idling	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 idling	aux
7	idling	idle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 now	advcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 idling	advmod
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 time	nmod:poss
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 idling	obj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 idling	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 's	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 's	expl
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 broke	aux
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cows	det
16	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 broke	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 broke	aux
18	broke	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 oats	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 oats	det
21	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 broke	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knocking	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knocking	cc
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 knocking	aux
25	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 broke	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 corn	det
27	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knocking	obj
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 about	advmod
29	about	about	ADV	_	25 knocking	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 broke	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	idle away	present · progressive	you		here	time	away property	tree rules
2	break	present · perfect · passive		the cows		now	into the oats result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into oat=Result
3	knock	present · progressive		the corn			about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent corn=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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