Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 32

Off they set again, and just as the shadows of the trees were three times as long as themselves, they heard a great cackling in a field inside the road, and out over the ditch jumped a fox with a fine black cock in his mouth.

Who acts: tops, shadows, ditch · What happens: set, be, hear, jump, shadow · To what, where: great cackling, field, fox, trees

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 (tops, shadows, ditch), 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	Off	off	ADP	_	3 set	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shadows	advcl
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shadows	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 shadows	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 shadows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadows	det
10	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shadows	nmod
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shadows	acl
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 times	nummod
16	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 were	obl:unmarked
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 were	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 themselves	case
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 long	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 long	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cackling	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cackling	amod
26	cackling	cackling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 field	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 field	det
29	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obl
30	inside	inside	ADP	_	32 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 road	det
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 field	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 jumped	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 jumped	cc
35	out	out	ADV	_	38 ditch	advmod
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 ditch	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ditch	det
38	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 jumped	nsubj
39	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 fox	det
41	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 jumped	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	46 cock	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 cock	det
44	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 cock	amod
45	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 cock	amod
46	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 jumped	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 mouth	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 mouth	nmod:poss
49	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cock	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shadows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	tops = top			again		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	be	past	the shadows of the trees not said here			time	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	tops = top	a great cackling	a field inside the road			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cackling=Stimulus
4	jump	past	the ditch	a fox			with a fine black cock in ditch's mouth	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Agent
5	shadow			the trees				nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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