Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 35

Reynard dropped his prize like a hot potato, and was off like shot, and the poor cock came back fluttering and trembling to Jack and his comrades.

Who acts: Reynard, poor cock · What happens: drop off, come back, flutter, tremble · To what, where: prize, Jack

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 (Reynard, poor cock), 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	Reynard	Reynard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 prize	nmod:poss
4	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 potato	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 potato	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 potato	amod
8	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 off	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 off	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 off	cop
12	off	off	ADP	_	2 dropped	compound:prt
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 shot	case
14	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cock	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cock	amod
19	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dropped	parataxis
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
22	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 came	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 trembling	cc
24	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 fluttering	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Jack	case
26	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 trembling	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 comrades	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 comrades	nmod:poss
29	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Jack	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	drop off	past	Reynard	Reynard's prize		like a hot potato; like shot	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme
2	come back	past	the poor cock				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flutter	gerund	the poor cock not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tremble	gerund	the poor cock not said here		Jack and Jack's comrades		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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