More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 18

And at cudgels, wrestling, or throwing the hammer, not a man could stand against him, so that at last none durst go into the ring to wrestle with him, and his fame was spread more and more in the country.

Who acts: cudgels, man · What happens: throw, not stand, go, wrestle, spread · To what, where: hammer, last none durst, fame, country

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cudgels, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 cudgels	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 cudgels	case
3	cudgels	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wrestling	punct
5	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cudgels	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 throwing	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 throwing	cc
8	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 cudgels	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hammer	det
10	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throwing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stand	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stand	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stand	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stand	aux
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hammer	parataxis
17	against	against	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stand	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 that	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 stand	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 durst	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 durst	amod
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 durst	compound
25	durst	durst	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stand	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 ring	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ring	det
29	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 wrestle	mark
31	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wrestle	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 spread	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 spread	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fame	nmod:poss
37	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spread	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 spread	aux:pass
39	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stand	conj
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 spread	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 more	cc
42	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 more	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 country	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 country	det
45	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spread	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cudgels	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund	cudgels and wrestling not said here	the hammer			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme
2	not stand	could	a man			against Tom; so that	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=Location
3	go	infinitive	a man not said here		last none durst	into the ring	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into ring=Initial_Location
4	wrestle	to-infinitive	a man not said here			with Tom	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
5	spread	past · passive		Tom's fame	the country		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in country=Destination

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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