Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 69

"Hold 'em fast; hold 'em fast!" bawled the innkeeper, who was the last to come up, he was so fat. "

Who acts: you, innkeeper, couple · What happens: hold, bawl, be, come up · To what, where: 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, innkeeper, couple), 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	_	2 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Hold	obj
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Hold	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 hold	punct
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Hold	conj
7	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hold	obj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hold	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
11	bawled	bawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hold	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 innkeeper	det
13	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bawled	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 last	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 last	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 last	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 last	det
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 innkeeper	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 last	xcomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 come	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fat	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fat	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fat	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 fat	advmod
26	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Hold	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold in a quote	imperative	you not said here	'em = they	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	hold in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	'em = they	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	bawl speech: other	past	the innkeeper			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the innkeeper		last property	tree rules
5	come up	to-infinitive	the innkeeper not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	couple		fat property	tree rules

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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