More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 90

For Tom could do nothing himself; the brooms wouldn't stay in his hand, the plough ran away from him, the hoe kept out of his grip.

Who acts: Tom, brooms, plough, hoe · What happens: do, not stay, run away, keep out, grip · To what, where: nothing, hand, grip

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 (Tom, brooms, plough, hoe), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 do	mark
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stay	advcl
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 do	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 nothing	appos
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brooms	det
9	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stay	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stay	advmod
12	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ran	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 plough	det
18	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ran	nsubj
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	parataxis
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 ran	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ran	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hoe	det
25	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	nsubj
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ran	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 grip	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 grip	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 grip	nmod:poss
30	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	could	Tom	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	not stay	would	the brooms		Tom's hand		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
3	run away	past	the plough			from Tom; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory
4	keep out	past	the hoe	Tom's grip			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=Theme
5	grip		Tom				nom grip «act transitive»: poss=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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