Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 49

So they all shook themselves, and went on through grass, and rocks, and briars, till they got down into a hollow, and there was the light coming through the shadow, and along with it came singing, and laughing, and cursing.

Who acts: cabin, light · What happens: shake, go on, get down, be, come, sing · To what, where: cabin, grass, hollow, shadow, light

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 (cabin, light), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 shook	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 shook	advmod
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 shook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 went	compound:prt
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 grass	case
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rocks	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rocks	cc
14	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shook	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 briars	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 briars	cc
17	briars	briar	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rocks	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 got	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	parataxis
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 hollow	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hollow	det
25	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 got	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 was	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 was	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 light	det
31	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 was	nsubj
32	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 light	acl
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 shadow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shadow	det
35	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coming	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 came	cc
38	along	along	ADP	_	40 it	case
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	obl
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
42	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 came	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 laughing	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 laughing	cc
45	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 singing	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cursing	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 cursing	cc
48	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 singing	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	cabin	cabin		rocks and briars obl	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	go on	past	cabin not said here		grass		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through grass=Location
3	get down	past	cabin		a hollow	down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	be	past	the light		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	gerund	the light not said here		the shadow		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through shadow=Initial_Location
6	come	past	cabin not said here		light		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along it=Initial_Location
7	sing speech: express	gerund	cabin not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	laugh	gerund	cabin not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	curse	gerund	cabin not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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