More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 8

"Your rope is too short," said the farmer by way of a joke; but the joke was on Tom's side, for when he had made up his load there was some twenty hundred-weight of straw, and though they called him a fool for thinking he could carry the tithe of it, he flung it over his shoulder as if it had been a hundred-weight, to the great admiration of master and men.

Who acts: rope, farmer, joke, Tom, hundred weight, they · What happens: be, say, make up, call, think, carry · To what, where: side, load, Tom, tithe, rope, shoulder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rope, farmer, joke, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 short	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 rope	nmod:poss
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 short	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 short	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 way	case
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 farmer	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 joke	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 side	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 side	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 joke	det
20	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 side	cop
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 side	case
23	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Tom	case
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 made	mark
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 made	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 made	compound:prt
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 load	nmod:poss
34	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 was	expl
36	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	parataxis
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 weight	det
38	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 hundred	compound
39	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 weight	nummod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 weight	punct
41	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 was	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 straw	case
43	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 weight	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 called	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 called	cc
46	though	though	SCONJ	_	48 called	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 called	nsubj
48	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 called	obj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 fool	det
51	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 called	xcomp
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 thinking	mark
53	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 called	advcl
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 carry	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 carry	aux
56	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 thinking	ccomp
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 tithe	det
58	tithe	tithe	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 carry	obj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 it	case
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 tithe	nmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 flung	punct
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 flung	nsubj
63	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 flung	obj
65	over	over	ADP	_	67 shoulder	case
66	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 shoulder	nmod:poss
67	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 flung	obl
68	as	as	SCONJ	_	76 weight	mark
69	if	if	SCONJ	_	76 weight	mark
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 weight	nsubj
71	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	76 weight	aux
72	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	76 weight	cop
73	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	76 weight	det
74	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	76 weight	nummod
75	-	-	PUNCT	_	74 hundred	punct
76	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 flung	advcl
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 admiration	punct
78	to	to	ADP	_	81 admiration	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 admiration	det
80	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 admiration	amod
81	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 flung	parataxis
82	of	of	ADP	_	83 master	case
83	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 admiration	nmod
84	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 men	cc
85	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	83 master	conj
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Your rope				short property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the farmer by way of a joke					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	the joke			Tom's side		tree rules
4	make up	past · perfect	Tom	Tom's load				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme load=Pivot
5	be	past	some hundred weight of straw			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	call	past	they		Tom			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	think speech: other	gerund	they not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	carry	could	Tom	the tithe of rope				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tithe=Theme
9	fling	past	Tom	rope		Tom's shoulder		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination
10	is a	past · perfect	rope	a hundred weight				tree rules
11	admire			master and men				nom admiration «feeling 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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