Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 85

I made to the room door as fast as I could, and who should I stumble over but a cobbler and his seat, and if he did not work at me with his awls and his pinchers you may call me a rogue.

Who acts: I, Enniscorthy, you · What happens: make, stumble over, not work, call · To what, where: pinchers, me · 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 (I, Enniscorthy, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	compound
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 made	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 could	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fast	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stumble	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stumble	cc
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stumble	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stumble	aux
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stumble	nsubj
17	stumble	stumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	parataxis
18	over	over	ADV	_	17 stumble	advmod
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 cobbler	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cobbler	det
21	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stumble	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seat	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 seat	nmod:poss
24	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cobbler	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 work	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 work	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 work	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 work	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 work	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 work	advmod
31	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	parataxis
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 work	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 awls	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 awls	nmod:poss
36	awls	awl	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 work	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pinchers	cc
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 pinchers	nmod:poss
39	pinchers	pincher	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 awls	conj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 call	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 call	aux
42	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 pinchers	acl:relcl
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 call	obj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 rogue	det
45	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 call	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	I			to the room door; fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stumble over	should				over property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not work a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Enniscorthy			at me; with Enniscorthy's awls and Enniscorthy's pinchers	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent at i=Theme with awl=Co-Agent
4	call	may	you	Enniscorthy's pinchers not said here	me		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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