English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 14

“I have that, father,” said the lad, and going to the ass he pulled its long ears; well, he pulled, and he pulled, till one of them came off in his hands; but Neddy, though he hee-hawed and he hee-hawed let fall no half crowns or guineas.

Who acts: lad, Jack · What happens: have, say, go, pull, come off, haw · To what, where: that, ass, long ears, one, hands, Neddy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, Jack), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lad	det
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pulled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pulled	cc
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 pulled	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ass	det
17	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pulled	nsubj
19	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ears	nmod:poss
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ears	amod
22	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pulled	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pulled	punct
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 pulled	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pulled	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pulled	nsubj
27	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pulled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pulled	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pulled	nsubj
31	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pulled	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
33	till	till	ADP	_	34 one	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 pulled	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 one	nmod
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pulled	conj
38	off	off	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 hands	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hands	nmod:poss
41	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 came	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 Neddy	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 Neddy	cc
44	Neddy	Neddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 hawed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 hawed	punct
46	though	though	SCONJ	_	50 hawed	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 hawed	nsubj
48	hee	hee	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hawed	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 hee	punct
50	hawed	haw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 let	cc
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 let	nsubj
53	hee	hee	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 let	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 hee	punct
55	hawed	haw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 let	amod
56	let	let	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hawed	conj
57	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 hawed	advcl
58	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	60 crowns	det
59	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	60 crowns	compound
60	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 fall	obj
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 guineas	cc
62	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 crowns	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the lad = lad	that		father vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the lad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	gerund	Jack not said here		the ass		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ass=Initial_Location
4	pull	past	Jack	lad's long ears			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
5	pull	past	Jack			well property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pull	past	Jack	one of ears			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
7	come off	past	Jack not said here		Jack's hands	off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
8	haw	participle	Jack	Neddy			tree rules
9	haw	participle					tree rules
10	let		Jack				tree rules
11	fall	infinitive	Jack not said here	no half crowns or guineas			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient crown=Result

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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