More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 94

At last, things got so bad that the master gave Tom the sack, and if he hadn't, all the rest of the lads would have sacked him, for they swore they'd not stay on the same garth with Tom.

Who acts: last things, master, Tom, things · What happens: get, give, not have, sack, swear, not stay · To what, where: sack, Tom, rest, same garth

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 (last things, master, Tom, things), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 bad	advmod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 gave	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	advcl
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gave	iobj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sack	det
14	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sacked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sacked	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sacked	advcl
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 had	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 rest	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sacked	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 lads	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lads	det
27	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rest	nmod
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sacked	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sacked	aux
30	sacked	sack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 got	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sacked	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 swore	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 swore	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 swore	nsubj
35	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stay	nsubj
37	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 stay	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 stay	advmod
39	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 swore	ccomp
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 garth	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 garth	det
42	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 garth	amod
43	garth	garth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stay	obl
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 Tom	case
45	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 garth	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	last things				bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	give	past	the master	the sack	Tom			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient sack=Theme
3	not have a condition, not said to happen	past	Tom					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sack	would · perfect · passive		all rest of the lads				tree rules
5	swear	past	things = thing					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not stay	would	things = thing			the same garth with Tom		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on garth=Location

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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