More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 64

Tom's very knee-bones struck, for certainly an ordinary body couldn't have known what he'd been thinking to himself, but he looked so kind like, and spoke so fair, that he made bold to get out, a bit quavery like--

Who acts: knee bones, Tom · What happens: strike, not know, think, look, speak, make · To what, where: ordinary body, Tom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knee bones, Tom), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bones	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tom	case
3	very	very	ADV	_	6 bones	advmod
4	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bones	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 knee	punct
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 struck	nsubj
7	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 known	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 known	mark
10	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	17 known	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 body	det
12	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 known	nsubj:pass
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 known	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 known	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 known	aux
17	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 struck	parataxis
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 thinking	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thinking	nsubj
20	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thinking	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 thinking	aux
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 known	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 thinking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 struck	parataxis
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 kind	advmod
30	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 looked	xcomp
31	like	like	ADP	_	30 kind	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spoke	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spoke	cc
34	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 struck	parataxis
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 fair	advmod
36	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 spoke	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 made	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 made	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 made	nsubj
40	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 spoke	conj
41	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 made	xcomp
42	to	to	PART	_	43 get	mark
43	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 bold	advcl
44	out	out	ADV	_	43 get	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 quavery	punct
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 bit	det
47	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 quavery	obl:unmarked
48	quavery	quavery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 made	xcomp
49	like	like	INTJ	_	48 quavery	discourse
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	strike	participle	Tom's knee bones				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know	could · perfect · passive		a ordinary body		certainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past · perfect · progressive	Tom		Tom		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	look	past	Tom			kind property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	speak speech: other	past				fair property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	Tom			bold, quavery property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	get out	to-infinitive	Tom not said here			out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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