English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 22

So off Tommy pelters, and right glad he was to get off so cheap; and for many a long day he was as good as good could be, and never went round the corner of the street.

Who acts: Tommy, many · What happens: pelter, be, not go · To what, where: corner

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tommy, many), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 pelters	advmod
2	off	off	ADP	_	3 Tommy	case
3	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pelters	obl
4	pelters	pelter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glad	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 glad	cc
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glad	amod
8	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pelters	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 get	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 glad	ccomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 get	compound:prt
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 cheap	advmod
15	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 good	cc
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 many	case
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 good	nsubj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 many	obl:unmarked
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 good	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 good	cop
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 good	advmod
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 be	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 good	case
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 good	obl
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 be	aux
30	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pelters	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 went	advmod
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pelters	conj
35	round	round	ADP	_	37 corner	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 corner	det
37	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 street	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 street	det
40	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 corner	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pelters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	pelter	present			off Tommy	tree rules
2	is	past	Tommy		cheap, get property	tree rules
3	is	past	many		as good; good property	tree rules
4	can	could				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not go	past		the corner of the street		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round corner=Initial_Location

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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