English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 42

At the word the cudgel flew from his hand and battered the old publican on the back, rapped his head, bruised his arms tickled his ribs, till he fell groaning on the floor; still the stick belaboured the prostrate man, nor would Jack call it off till he had got back the stolen ass and table.

Who acts: cudgel, arms, man, stick, Jack · What happens: fly, batter, rap, bruise, tickle, fall · To what, where: word, old publican, head, ribs, floor, prostrate man

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 (cudgel, arms, man, stick), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cudgel	det
5	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 battered	cc
11	battered	batter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 publican	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 publican	amod
14	publican	publican	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 battered	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 back	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 battered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rapped	punct
19	rapped	rap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rapped	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bruised	punct
23	bruised	bruise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rapped	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arms	nmod:poss
25	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tickled	nsubj
26	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bruised	ccomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ribs	nmod:poss
28	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tickled	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 fell	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tickled	conj
33	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 fell	xcomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 floor	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 floor	det
36	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 groaning	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 belaboured	punct
38	still	still	ADV	_	40 stick	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stick	det
40	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 belaboured	nsubj
41	belaboured	belabour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 man	det
43	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 man	amod
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 belaboured	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 call	punct
46	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	49 call	cc
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 call	aux
48	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 call	nsubj
49	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 belaboured	parataxis
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 call	obj
51	off	off	ADP	_	49 call	compound:prt
52	till	till	SCONJ	_	55 got	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 got	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 got	aux
55	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 call	advcl
56	back	back	ADV	_	55 got	advmod
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 ass	det
58	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 ass	amod
59	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 got	obj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 table	cc
61	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 ass	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the cudgel		the word	from man's hand	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location
2	batter	past	the cudgel not said here	the old publican		on the back	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent publican=Instrument on back=Patient
3	rap	past	the cudgel not said here	man's head			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	bruise	past	the cudgel not said here				tree rules
5	tickle	past	man's arms	man's ribs			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Experiencer
6	fall	past	man				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	groan	gerund	man not said here		the floor		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
8	belabour	past	the stick	the prostrate man			tree rules
9	call off speech: assert	would	Jack	head			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
10	get back	past · perfect	man	the stolen ass and table			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus
11	steal	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «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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