Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 72

The lights were all out, and so he groped his way to the fire, and there the cat flew in his face, and tore him with teeth and claws.

Who acts: lights, boy, cat · What happens: be, grope, fly, tore · To what, where: way, face, boy

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 (lights, boy, cat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lights	det
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 out	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 out	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 out	advmod
5	out	out	ADV	_	10 groped	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 groped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 groped	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 groped	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 groped	nsubj
10	groped	grope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 groped	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 groped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flew	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 flew	expl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cat	det
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flew	nsubj
21	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 groped	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 face	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 face	nmod:poss
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flew	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tore	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tore	cc
27	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 groped	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tore	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 teeth	case
30	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tore	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 claws	cc
32	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 teeth	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 groped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lights			all, out property	tree rules
2	grope	past	boy	boy's way		to the fire	vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Experiencer
3	fly	past	the cat		boy's face; there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in face=Location
4	tore	past		boy		with teeth and claws	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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