Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 25

And though the thing roared to him to stop, yet the sprightly tailor was not the man to be beholden to a monster.

Who acts: thing, sprightly tailor · What happens: roar, stop, not be, beholden · To what, where: tailor, man

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 (thing, sprightly 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 roared	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 roared	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roared	nsubj
5	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 roared	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 roared	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	18 man	cc
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	18 man	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 man	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 man	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roared	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 beholden	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 beholden	aux:pass
21	beholden	beholden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 man	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 monster	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 monster	det
24	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beholden	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	roar	past	the thing		tailor		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	stop	to-infinitive	the thing not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	not is a	past	the sprightly tailor	the man			tree rules
4	beholden	to-infinitive · passive	the thing not said here			to a monster	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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