Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 53

"The porter's purty health!" cried out every one of them, and Jack bent his finger at his comrades.

Who acts: purty health, Jack · What happens: cry out, bend · To what, where: one, finger, comrades

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 (purty health, Jack), 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 health	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 porter	det
3	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 health	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 porter	case
5	purty	purty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 health	amod
6	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 health	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 health	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 cried	compound:prt
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bent	cc
17	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bent	nsubj
18	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 finger	nmod:poss
20	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bent	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 comrades	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 comrades	nmod:poss
23	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bent	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	the porter's purty health	every one of thieves					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	bend	past	Jack	health's finger		health's comrades			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme at comrade=Location

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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