English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 2

Childe Rowland kicked it with his foot And caught it with his knee; At last as he plunged among them all O'er the church he made it flee.

Who acts: Childe, twain · What happens: kick, catch, plunge, make, flee · To what, where: twain, last, O'er

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe, twain), 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	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	nsubj
2	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Childe	flat
3	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kicked	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 foot	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 foot	nmod:poss
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kicked	obl
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 caught	cc
9	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kicked	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caught	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 knee	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 knee	nmod:poss
13	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 last	punct
15	At	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kicked	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 plunged	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 plunged	nsubj
19	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 last	acl:relcl
20	among	among	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 plunged	obl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 O'er	det
23	O'er	O'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 plunged	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 church	det
25	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plunged	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 plunged	advcl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kicked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kick	past	Childe	twain	last	with Childe's foot	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument
2	catch	past	Childe not said here	twain		with Childe's knee	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	plunge	past	Childe	all O'er		among brothers = brother; the church obl	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location o'er=Theme
4	make	past	Childe	twain			tree rules
5	flee	infinitive	twain not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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