English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 51

“Up stick and bang them!” exclaimed Jack; whereupon the cudgel leaped up, and running along the line of girls, knocked them all on the heads and left them senseless on the pavement.

Who acts: Jack, cudgel · What happens: bang, exclaim, leap up, run, knock, leave · To what, where: sticks, line, heads, pavement · 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 (Jack, cudgel), 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	_	5 bang	punct
2	Up	up	ADP	_	5 bang	advmod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Up	fixed
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bang	cc
5	bang	bang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 exclaimed	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bang	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 bang	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 bang	punct
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 leaped	punct
12	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	15 leaped	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cudgel	det
14	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaped	nsubj
15	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 exclaimed	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 leaped	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knocked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 knocked	cc
19	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 knocked	advcl
20	along	along	ADP	_	22 line	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 line	det
22	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 girls	case
24	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 line	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 running	punct
26	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 leaped	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knocked	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 them	nmod:unmarked
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 heads	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 heads	det
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 knocked	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 left	cc
33	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knocked	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 left	obj
35	senseless	senseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 left	xcomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 pavement	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pavement	det
38	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bang in a quote	infinitive		sticks = stick			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
2	exclaim speech: express	past	Jack				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leap up	participle	the cudgel			whereupon property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run	gerund			the line of girls		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along line=Trajectory
5	knock	past	the cudgel not said here	sticks = stick	the heads		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme on head=Destination
6	leave	past	the cudgel not said here	sticks = stick	the pavement	senseless property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on pavement=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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