More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 14

T was all cussing and calling down misfortune on him; but he was so mazed in fright that he could only stand there shaking all over, and staring down at the horrid thing; and if he'd gone on long, Tom would have tumbled down in a fit.

Who acts: T · What happens: cuss, call down, maze, stand, shake, stare down · To what, where: misfortune, T, fright, long, Tom, fit

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (T), 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	T	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cussing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cussing	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 cussing	advmod
4	cussing	cuss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 calling	cc
6	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cussing	conj
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 calling	compound:prt
8	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calling	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calling	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 mazed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 mazed	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mazed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mazed	aux:pass
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 mazed	advmod
16	mazed	maze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cussing	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 fright	case
18	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mazed	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 stand	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stand	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 stand	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 stand	advmod
23	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 mazed	xcomp
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stand	advmod
25	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stand	advcl
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 over	advmod
27	over	over	ADV	_	25 shaking	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 staring	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 staring	cc
30	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 shaking	conj
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 staring	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 thing	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 thing	det
34	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thing	amod
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 staring	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 gone	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 gone	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 gone	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 gone	nsubj
40	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 gone	aux
41	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cussing	parataxis
42	on	on	ADP	_	43 long	case
43	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 gone	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 tumbled	punct
45	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 tumbled	nsubj:pass
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 tumbled	aux
47	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 tumbled	aux
48	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 gone	conj
49	down	down	ADP	_	48 tumbled	compound:prt
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 fit	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 fit	det
52	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 tumbled	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cussing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cuss	past · progressive	T			all property	tree rules
2	call down speech: assert	gerund	T not said here	misfortune		on T	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent misfortune=Recipient
3	maze	past · passive		T	fright		tree rules
4	stand	could	T		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shake	gerund	T not said here			over property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	stare down	gerund	T not said here			at the horrid thing; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme
7	go a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	T		long		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on long=Location
8	tumble down	would · perfect · passive		Tom	a fit		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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