Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 78

When he came to himself, he scratched his head, and began to think what happened him; and as soon as he found that his legs were able to carry him, he crawled away, dragging one foot after another, till he reached the wood.

Who acts: boy, legs · What happens: come, scratch, begin, think, happen, find · To what, where: boy, head, one foot, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

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, legs), 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 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scratched	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scratched	nsubj
8	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scratched	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scratched	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happened	nsubj
17	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 think	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 happened	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 found	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 found	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scratched	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 able	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legs	nmod:poss
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 able	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 found	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 carry	mark
32	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carry	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 crawled	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 crawled	nsubj
36	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	parataxis
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 crawled	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 dragging	punct
39	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 crawled	advcl
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 foot	nummod
41	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dragging	obj
42	after	after	ADP	_	43 another	case
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 dragging	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 reached	punct
45	till	till	SCONJ	_	47 reached	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 reached	nsubj
47	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 crawled	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 wood	det
49	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 reached	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 scratched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	boy		boy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location
2	scratch	past	boy	boy's head				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	begin	past	boy not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	boy not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	happen	past		boy				tree rules
6	find	past	boy				soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	boy's legs				able property	tree rules
8	carry	to-infinitive	boy's legs not said here	boy				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	crawl away	past	boy				away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	drag	gerund	boy not said here	one foot		after another		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
11	reach	past	boy	the wood				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

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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