More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 49

The tinker had a leathern coat on, and at every blow Tom gave the tinker his coat roared again, yet the tinker did not give way one inch.

Who acts: tinker, Tom, coat · What happens: have on, give, roar, not give · To what, where: leathern coat, tinker, blow, way

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 (tinker, Tom, coat), 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 tinker	det
2	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coat	det
5	leathern	leathern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	3 had	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 blow	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 blow	det
12	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tinker	det
16	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 coat	nmod:poss
18	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roared	nsubj
19	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tinker	acl:relcl
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 roared	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	27 give	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tinker	det
24	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 give	advmod
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gave	conj
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 inch	nummod
30	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have on	past	the tinker	a leathern coat			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
2	give	past	Tom	the tinker	every blow		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent tinker=Theme at blow=Asset
3	roar	past	Tom's coat	the tinker not said here		again	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tinker=Theme
4	not give	past · do-support	the tinker	way			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient inch=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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