More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 97

You'll scarce believe it, but he'd hardly brought out the words but he felt something tweaking his leg behind, while he jumped with the smart of it; and soon as he looked down, there was the tiddy thing, with his shining hair, and wrinkled face, and wicked glinting black eyne.

Who acts: You, Tom, tiddy thing · What happens: scarce, believe, bring out, feel, tweak, jump · To what, where: wrinkled face, fist, words, something, leg

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 (You, Tom, tiddy thing), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 scarce	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 scarce	aux
3	scarce	scarce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scarce	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 brought	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	nsubj
9	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux
10	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	11 brought	advmod
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 scarce	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 brought	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brought	obj
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 felt	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	conj
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 felt	obj
19	tweaking	tweak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 something	acl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 leg	nmod:poss
21	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tweaking	obj
22	behind	behind	ADV	_	19 tweaking	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 jumped	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 jumped	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 jumped	nsubj
26	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 felt	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 smart	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 smart	det
29	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 jumped	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 smart	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 looked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 looked	cc
34	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 looked	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 looked	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 looked	nsubj
37	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scarce	parataxis
38	down	down	ADP	_	37 looked	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 was	punct
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 was	expl
41	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scarce	parataxis
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 thing	det
43	tiddy	tiddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 thing	compound
44	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 was	nsubj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hair	punct
46	with	with	ADP	_	49 hair	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 hair	nmod:poss
48	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 hair	amod
49	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scarce	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 face	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 face	cc
52	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 face	amod
53	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scarce	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 eyne	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 eyne	cc
56	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 glinting	amod
57	glinting	glint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 eyne	amod
58	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 eyne	amod
59	eyne	eyne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scarce	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scarce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scarce	future	You	wrinkled face		with Tom's shining hair; glinting black eyne obl	tree rules
2	believe	infinitive	You not said here	fist			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	bring out	past · perfect	Tom	the words		hardly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient
4	feel	past	Tom	something			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
5	tweak	gerund		Tom's leg		behind property	vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Experiencer
6	jump	past	Tom			smart property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	look down	past	Tom			soon property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	be	past	the tiddy thing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	wrinkle	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	glint	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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