Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 76

When he got to the street door, the cock dropped down upon him with his claws and bill, and what the cat and dog done to him was only a flay-bite to what he got from the cock.

Who acts: boy, cock, cat · What happens: get, drop down, do, be · To what, where: cat, boy, flay bite

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, cock, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dropped	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	compound
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cock	det
10	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dropped	nsubj
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 dropped	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 claws	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 claws	nmod:poss
17	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dropped	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bill	cc
19	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 claws	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 what	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 dropped	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cat	det
24	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bite	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dog	cc
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cat	conj
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 cat	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	obl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bite	cop
31	only	only	ADV	_	35 bite	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bite	det
33	flay	flay	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bite	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 flay	punct
35	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 what	acl:relcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 what	case
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 bite	nmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 got	nsubj
39	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 what	acl:relcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 cock	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cock	det
42	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 got	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	boy			to the street door result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to door=Result
2	drop down	past	the cock			upon boy; with boy's claws and bill; down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory
3	do	participle		the cat and dog not said here	boy		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the cat and dog	a flay bite			tree rules
5	get	past	boy			from the cock	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from cock=Destination

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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