More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 52

But the tinker being a nimble fellow, leapt up again, gave Tom a blow that made him reel again, and followed his blow with one on the other side that made Tom's neck crack again.

Who acts: tinker, blow, Tom, other side · What happens: be, leapt up, give, make, reel, follow · To what, where: nimble fellow, blow, Tom, neck crack

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, blow, Tom, other side), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 fellow	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tinker	det
3	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fellow	nsubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fellow	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
6	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellow	amod
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leapt	punct
9	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 fellow	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 leapt	compound:prt
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 leapt	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 leapt	advcl
14	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gave	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blow	det
16	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 blow	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	reel	reel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	xcomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 reel	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 followed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 followed	cc
24	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 blow	nmod:poss
26	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 followed	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 followed	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 side	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 side	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 side	amod
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 one	nmod
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 side	acl:relcl
35	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 crack	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Tom	case
37	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 crack	compound
38	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obj
39	again	again	ADV	_	34 made	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	the tinker	a nimble fellow				tree rules
2	leapt up	infinitive				again		tree rules
3	give	past		a blow	Tom			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient blow=Theme
4	make	past	a blow	Tom				tree rules
5	reel	infinitive	Tom not said here			again		vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	follow	past		Tom's blow			with one on the other side	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
7	make	past	the other side	Tom's neck crack		again		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crack=Product
8	blow		Tom					nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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