More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 48

So Tom took a gate-rail for his staff, and at it they fell, the tinker at Tom, and Tom at the tinker, like two giants they laid on at each other.

Who acts: Tom, things · What happens: take, fall, lay on · To what, where: gate rail, tinker, staff, each

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 (Tom, things), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rail	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rail	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 gate	punct
7	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 staff	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 staff	nmod:poss
10	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rail	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tinker	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tinker	det
19	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 Tom	case
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 tinker	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Tom	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Tom	cc
24	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 tinker	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tinker	det
27	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Tom	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 laid	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 giants	case
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 giants	nummod
31	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 laid	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 laid	nsubj
33	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 laid	compound:prt
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 each	case
36	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	33 laid	obl
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 each	fixed
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Tom	a gate rail		for Tom's staff; Tom at the tinker obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rail=Theme for staff=Beneficiary
2	fall	past	things = thing	the tinker at Tom	staff		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at it=Location
3	lay on	past	things = thing		each	like two giants	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at each=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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