Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 23
Then the fearsome thing gave a loud roar, and stamped with both his feet upon the pavement, and out of the church he went after the sprightly tailor.
Who acts: fearsome thing, tailor · What happens: give, stamp, go · To what, where: loud roar, pavement, 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 (fearsome thing, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | fearsome | fearsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 roar | det |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 roar | amod |
| 8 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stamped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stamped | cc |
| 11 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 feet | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stamped | obl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 pavement | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pavement | det |
| 18 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stamped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 church | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 church | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 church | det |
| 24 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 tailor | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tailor | det |
| 29 | sprightly | sprightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tailor | amod |
| 30 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the fearsome thing | a loud roar | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | |||
| 2 | stamp | past | the fearsome thing not said here | the pavement | with tailor's feet | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon pavement=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | tailor | the church | after the sprightly tailor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out church=Initial_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: «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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