Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 21

The Carl then picked up the head and threw it at the body with such aim and force that the neck part of the head jammed into the neck part of the body and stuck there, as good a head as ever, you would have said, but that it bad got twisted the wrong way round.

Who acts: Carl, you · What happens: pick up, throw, jam, stick, say, get · To what, where: head, body, neck part, good head, wrong way · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Carl	det
2	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 picked	advmod
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threw	cc
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 body	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 body	det
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 aim	case
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 aim	amod
16	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 force	cc
18	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 aim	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 jammed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 part	det
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	compound
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jammed	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 head	det
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	nmod
26	jammed	jam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 threw	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 part	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 part	det
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	compound
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jammed	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 body	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 body	det
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stuck	cc
35	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 stuck	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 head	punct
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 good	case
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 head	amod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 head	det
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stuck	obl
42	as	as	ADP	_	43 ever	case
43	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 stuck	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 said	punct
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 said	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 said	aux
47	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 said	aux
48	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 picked	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 got	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 got	cc
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 bad	mark
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 bad	nsubj
53	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 got	advcl
54	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	parataxis
55	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 got	xcomp
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 way	det
57	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 way	amod
58	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 got	obj
59	round	round	ADV	_	54 got	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the Carl	the head		then		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	throw	past	the Carl not said here	head	the body		with such aim and force	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at body=Destination
3	jam	participle · passive		the neck part of the head	the neck part of the body			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into part=Destination
4	stick	past	the Carl not said here	a good head	there			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	would · perfect	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	get	past		the wrong way			round, twisted property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

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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