English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 58

The stick lodged in the tree, and he returned to his wife without money, cow, bagpipes, gloves, or stick, and she instantly gave him such a sound cudgelling that she almost broke every bone in his skin.

Who acts: stick, cow · What happens: lodge, return, stick, give, break · To what, where: stick, tree, sound cudgelling, bird, bone, skin

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick, cow), 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 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	nsubj
3	lodged	lodge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stick	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lodged	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 returned	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 returned	nsubj
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 money	case
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cow	punct
17	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 money	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bagpipes	punct
19	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cow	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gloves	punct
21	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bagpipes	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stick	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 stick	cc
24	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 returned	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
28	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	29 gave	advmod
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stick	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	34 cudgelling	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cudgelling	det
33	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cudgelling	compound
34	cudgelling	cudgelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 broke	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 broke	nsubj
37	almost	almost	ADV	_	38 broke	advmod
38	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gave	advcl
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 bone	det
40	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 broke	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 skin	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 skin	nmod:poss
43	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 broke	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lodge	participle		the stick not said here		the tree		vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
2	return	past	the stick				to bird's wife result; without money and cow and bagpipes and gloves	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result
3	stick	infinitive	the stick not said here					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	give	past	cow	such sound cudgelling	bird		instantly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cudgelling=Theme
5	break	past	cow	every bone		bird's skin	almost property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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