More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 45

He gave a pull but it stuck, and she gave a pull but it stuck, and they both pulled till they had nigh pulled the nose off, but it stuck and stuck.

Who acts: goodman, pull, goodwife, e'en · What happens: give, stick, pull, pull off · To what, where: pull, e'en

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goodman, pull, goodwife, e'en), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pull	det
4	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stuck	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stuck	nsubj
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pull	det
13	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 stuck	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stuck	nsubj
16	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pulled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pulled	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pulled	nsubj
20	both	both	ADV	_	21 pulled	advmod
21	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 pulled	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pulled	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pulled	aux
25	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	26 pulled	advmod
26	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 pulled	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nose	det
28	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pulled	obj
29	off	off	ADP	_	26 pulled	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stuck	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 stuck	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stuck	nsubj
33	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stuck	cc
35	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stuck	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	goodman	a pull		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Theme
2	stick	past	pull			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	give	past	goodwife	a pull		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Theme
4	stick	past	pull			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	pull	past	e'en		both property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pull off	past · perfect · passive		e'en	nigh 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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