Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 22
But before it could pull it out of the pavement, the sprightly tailor had finished his task; and, blowing out his candle, and springing from off his gravestone, he buckled up, and ran out of the church with the trews under his arm.
Who acts: leg, pavement, tailor · What happens: pull, finish, blow out, spring, buckle up, run · To what, where: end, pavement, sprightly tailor, candle, gravestone, church
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 (leg, pavement, tailor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 pull | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 pull | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pull | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pull | aux |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pull | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pavement | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pavement | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pavement | det |
| 10 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 finished | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tailor | det |
| 13 | sprightly | sprightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tailor | amod |
| 14 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 finished | aux |
| 16 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pavement | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 task | nmod:poss |
| 18 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 blowing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blowing | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blowing | punct |
| 22 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pull | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 blowing | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 candle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blowing | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 springing | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 springing | cc |
| 28 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 blowing | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 gravestone | case |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 gravestone | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 gravestone | nmod:poss |
| 32 | gravestone | gravestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 springing | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 buckled | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 buckled | nsubj |
| 35 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pull | parataxis |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 buckled | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ran | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ran | cc |
| 39 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 buckled | conj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 church | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 church | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 church | det |
| 43 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ran | obl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 trews | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 trews | det |
| 46 | trews | trew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 church | nmod |
| 47 | under | under | ADP | _ | 49 arm | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 arm | nmod:poss |
| 49 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 trews | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | could | leg | end | the pavement | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out pavement=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect · passive | the pavement not said here | the sprightly tailor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blow out | gerund | leg not said here | tailor's candle | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spring | gerund | leg not said here | tailor's gravestone | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from gravestone=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | buckle up | past | tailor | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | run | past | tailor not said here | the church with the trews under tailor's arm | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out church=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | task | tailor | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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