Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 20

But the Carl lifted a pawful of his oozy slop and discharged this at Cael with such a smash that the man’s head spun off his shoulders and hopped along the ground.

Who acts: Carl, head · What happens: lift, discharge, spin off, hop · To what, where: pawful, this, Cael, shoulders, ground

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, head), 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	_	4 lifted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Carl	det
3	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pawful	det
6	pawful	pawful	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 slop	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 slop	nmod:poss
9	oozy	oozy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slop	amod
10	slop	slop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pawful	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 discharged	cc
12	discharged	discharge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lifted	conj
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 discharged	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 Cael	case
15	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 discharged	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 smash	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 smash	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 smash	det
19	smash	smash	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discharged	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 spun	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 head	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 man	case
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spun	nsubj
25	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 smash	acl:relcl
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 spun	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoulders	nmod:poss
28	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 spun	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hopped	cc
30	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spun	conj
31	along	along	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hopped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the Carl	a pawful of Carl's oozy slop			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pawful=Theme
2	discharge	participle	the Carl not said here	this	Cael	with such smash	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
3	spin off	past	the man's head	Carl's shoulders			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme
4	hop	past	the man's head not said here		the ground		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ground=Trajectory

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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