Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 19

He ran up to Jack for protection, and the ass let such a roar out of him, that the little thieves took to their heels as if the ould boy was after them.

Who acts: army, ass, little thieves, ould boy · What happens: run up, let, take, be · To what, where: Jack, roar

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (army, ass, little thieves, ould boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Jack	case
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 protection	case
7	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ass	det
11	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	nsubj
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 roar	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 roar	det
15	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	18 him	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 took	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thieves	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thieves	amod
23	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 let	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 heels	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heels	nmod:poss
27	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 them	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 them	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boy	det
31	ould	ould	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 boy	amod
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 them	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 them	cop
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run up	past	army		Jack		for protection	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to jack=Result
2	let	past	the ass	such roar			out army	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme
3	take	past	the little thieves				to thieves's heels result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result
4	is	past	the ould boy			after heels = heel		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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