More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 21

They were angry with Tom as you may fancy, but got nothing by that as Tom took hold of a big spar, and laid about with a will, so that though the whole country-side was up in arms against him, he cleared his way wherever he came.

Who acts: sports, you, Tom · What happens: be, fancy, get, take, lay about, clear · To what, where: nothing, hold, way, big spar

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 (sports, you, Tom), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Tom	case
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 fancy	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 fancy	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fancy	aux
9	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 angry	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 got	cc
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	parataxis
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 got	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 nothing	nmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 took	mark
17	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 got	advcl
19	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 spar	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spar	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spar	amod
23	spar	spar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hold	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laid	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 laid	cc
26	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
27	about	about	ADV	_	26 laid	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 will	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 will	det
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 laid	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 side	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 side	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	39 side	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 side	det
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 side	amod
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 side	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 country	punct
39	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 side	acl
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 was	compound:prt
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 arms	case
43	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 was	obl
44	against	against	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 cleared	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 him	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 cleared	nsubj
48	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 arms	acl:relcl
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 way	nmod:poss
50	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cleared	obj
51	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	53 came	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 came	nsubj
53	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 cleared	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	sports = sport		with Tom; angry property	tree rules
2	fancy	may	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	get	past		nothing	by that	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	take	past	Tom	hold of a big spar	the whole country side obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	lay about	past	Tom not said here		about property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	clear	past	Tom	Tom's way	against Tom	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent way=Source
7	come	past	Tom		wherever property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hold			a big spar		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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