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title: The master went over about nine o'clock to see what kind of a plough… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The master went over about nine o'clock to see what kind of a ploughman was Jack, and what did he see but the little boy driving the bastes, and the sock and coulter of the plough skimming along the sod, and Jack pulling ding-dong again' the horses. Who acts: master, kind, little boy, Jack. A senten
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 54

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The master went over about nine o'clock to see what kind of a ploughman was Jack, and what did he see but the little boy driving the bastes, and the sock and coulter of the plough skimming along the sod, and Jack pulling ding-dong again' the horses.

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**Who acts:** master, kind, little boy, Jack · **What happens:** go over, see, be, drive, pull · **To what, where:** nine o'clock, Jack, bastes, ding dong

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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: who acts (master, kind, little boy, Jack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:24:54
# text = The master went over about nine o'clock to see what kind of a ploughman was Jack, and what did he see but the little boy driving the bastes, and the sock and coulter of the plough skimming along the sod, and Jack pulling ding-dong again' the horses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ploughman	ploughman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bastes	baste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	coulter	coulter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	skimming	skimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	along	along	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sod	sod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
47	ding	ding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	dong	dong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	again	again	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go over** | past | the master | nine o'clock |  |  |  | over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | what kind of a ploughman | Jack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past · do-support | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **drive** | gerund | the little boy *not said here* | the bastes |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme baste=Trajectory |
| 6 | **pull** | gerund | Jack | ding dong |  |  | again | the horses *obl* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dong=Theme |

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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.

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**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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