Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 62

They blew out the candles, threw down the table, and skelped out at the back door as if they were in earnest, and never drew rein till they were in the very heart of the wood.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: blow out, throw down, skelp out, be, not draw · To what, where: candles, table, back door, rein, heart

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 (robbers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 blew	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 candles	det
5	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 threw	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 skelped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 skelped	cc
13	skelped	skelp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 skelped	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	compound
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 skelped	obl
19	as	as	ADP	_	24 earnest	case
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 earnest	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 earnest	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 earnest	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 earnest	case
24	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 skelped	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drew	cc
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 drew	advmod
28	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	parataxis
29	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drew	obj
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 heart	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 heart	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 heart	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 heart	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heart	det
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 heart	advmod
36	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drew	advcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 wood	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wood	det
39	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heart	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow out	past	robbers = robber	the candles			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient
2	throw down	past	robbers = robber not said here	the table			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme
3	skelp out	past	robbers = robber not said here		the back door		tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	robbers = robber			earn property	tree rules
5	not draw	past		rein			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme
6	is	past	robbers = robber		the heart	of the wood	tree rules

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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