Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 18

And still it kept rising through the pavement, until it shook a great pair of arms in the tailor's face, and said: "Do you see these great arms of mine?"

Who acts: head, you · What happens: keep, rise, shake, say, see · To what, where: pavement, great pair, great arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 pavement	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pavement	det
8	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rising	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shook	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 shook	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shook	nsubj
12	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pair	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pair	amod
15	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shook	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 arms	case
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pair	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 face	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tailor	det
20	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 face	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 tailor	case
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arms	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
28	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 arms	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 arms	amod
33	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 see	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 mine	case
35	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 arms	nmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	head			still	tree rules
2	rise	gerund	head not said here		the pavement		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through pavement=Location
3	shake	past	head	a great pair of arms in the tailor's face			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
4	say speech: ask	past	head not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see in a quote	present · do-support	you	this great arms of mine			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Stimulus

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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