Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 74
He trod on the dog's tail, and if he did, he got the marks of his teeth in his arms, and legs, and thighs.
Who acts: boy · What happens: tread, do, get, mark · To what, where: tail, marks, teeth
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 (boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 trod | nsubj |
| 2 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trod | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trod | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 marks | det |
| 17 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 teeth | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 marks | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 arms | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arms | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 teeth | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 legs | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 legs | cc |
| 26 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thighs | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thighs | cc |
| 29 | thighs | thigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | past | boy | the dog's tail | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tail=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | boy | the marks of boy's teeth in boy's arms | legs obl; thighs obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | mark | boy's teeth in boy's arms | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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