More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 98
Tom was in a fine rage, and he would have liked to have kicked him, but 't was no good, there wasn't enough of it to get his boot against; but he said, "Look here, master, I'll thank thee to leave me alone after this, dost hear?
Who acts: Tom, t, enough · What happens: be, like, kick, get, say, look · To what, where: fine rage, Tom, boot, thee · 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 (Tom, t, enough), 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 rage | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rage | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rage | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rage | det |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rage | amod |
| 6 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 liked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 liked | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 liked | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 liked | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 liked | aux |
| 12 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 rage | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kicked | mark |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kicked | aux |
| 15 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 liked | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kicked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 good | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 good | cc |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 t | punct |
| 20 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 good | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 good | cop |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 good | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rage | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rage | parataxis |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 enough | advmod |
| 28 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 was | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 enough | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 get | mark |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 enough | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 boot | nmod:poss |
| 34 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 get | obj |
| 35 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 get | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 said | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 said | nsubj |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rage | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Look | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Look | punct |
| 42 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 said | ccomp |
| 43 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 Look | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 master | punct |
| 45 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Look | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 thank | punct |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 thank | nsubj |
| 48 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 thank | aux |
| 49 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 Look | conj |
| 50 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 49 thank | obj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 leave | mark |
| 52 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 thank | advcl |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 leave | obj |
| 54 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 52 leave | advmod |
| 55 | after | after | ADP | _ | 56 this | case |
| 56 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 leave | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 dost | punct |
| 58 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 thank | conj |
| 59 | hear | hea | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 58 dost | xcomp |
| 60 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 rage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tom | a fine rage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | would · perfect | Tom | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | kick | to-infinitive · perfect | Tom not said here | Tom | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | t | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past | enough of t | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | enough of t not said here | Tom's boot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boot=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | say speech: ask | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | look in a quote | infinitive | here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | thank speech: thank in a quote | future | Tom | thee | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 10 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | Tom | after this | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 11 | do in a quote | present | Tom not said here | hea property | vn act-114-1 «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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