More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 30

Then they beat their staves against the ground one against the other, as if there had been a hundred sheep between them.

Who acts: men · What happens: beat, be · To what, where: staves

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 beat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beat	nsubj
3	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 staves	nmod:poss
5	staves	stave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beat	obj
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	obl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ground	flat
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 other	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sheep	punct
14	as	as	ADP	_	21 sheep	case
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 been	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 been	expl
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 been	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 sheep	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hundred	det
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sheep	nummod
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beat	obl
22	between	between	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sheep	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	men = man	men's staves			then	against the ground	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent stave=Instrument against ground=Patient
2	is	participle						as hundred sheep; between men = man	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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