Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 26

While they were eating and chatting, what should come by but a poor half-starved cat, and the moll-row he gave out of him would make your heart ache.

Who acts: potatoes, row, moll row, your · What happens: eat, chat, come, starve, give out, make · To what, where: cat, heart ache

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 (potatoes, row, moll row, your), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chatting	cc
6	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 eating	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 come	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chatting	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	18 cat	case
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cat	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cat	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cat	amod
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 starved	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 half	punct
17	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 cat	amod
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 make	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 row	det
22	moll	moll	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 row	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 moll	punct
24	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 row	acl:relcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	29 him	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	obl
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eating	conj
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 ache	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ache	compound
34	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	potatoes = potato			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chat speech: other	gerund	potatoes = potato not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	should			by a poor starved cat	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cat=Location
4	starve	participle				tree rules
5	give out	past	row	cat		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	make	would	the moll row	your heart ache		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ache=Product
7	ache		your			nom ache «state intransitive»: 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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