More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 30

The long and the short of it was that Tom killed two of the rogues and grieviously wounded the other two, and took all their money, which was as much as two hundred pounds.

Who acts: long, money · What happens: be, wound, take · To what, where: other two, money

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 (long, money), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 long	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 killed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 short	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 short	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 long	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 short	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 killed	mark
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 killed	nsubj
11	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 killed	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 rogues	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rogues	det
15	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 two	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wounded	cc
17	grieviously	grieviously	ADV	_	18 wounded	advmod
18	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 two	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 two	amod
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 wounded	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wounded	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 money	det:predet
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 money	nmod:poss
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 much	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 much	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 much	cop
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 money	acl:relcl
33	as	as	ADP	_	36 pounds	case
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 hundred	compound
35	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 pounds	nummod
36	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 much	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the long		kill property	tree rules
2	wound	past	the long not said here	the other two	grieviously property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus two=Experiencer
3	take	past	the long not said here	rogues's money		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	is	past	rogues's money		as hundred pounds; much property	tree rules

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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