Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 24

"Well, well, throw your tail over your arm, and come along."

Who acts: you · What happens: throw, come along · To what, where: tail, arm

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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 throw	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 throw	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	6 throw	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 arm	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 throw	conj
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 throw	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your tail		your arm			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tail=Theme over arm=Destination
2	come along in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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