Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 86

Well, I got away from him somehow, but when I was passing through the door, it must be the divel himself that pounced down on me with his claws, and his teeth, that were equal to sixpenny nails, and his wings--ill luck be in his road!

Who acts: I, door, Enniscorthy, that, wings · What happens: get away, pass, be, pounce down · To what, where: teeth, door, divel, road

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, door, Enniscorthy, that), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obl
8	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pounced	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 pounced	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 passing	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 passing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passing	aux
14	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 divel	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passing	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 divel	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 divel	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 divel	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 divel	det
23	divel	divel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pounced	obl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 pounced	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 pounced	nsubj
26	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 pounced	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pounced	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 claws	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 claws	nmod:poss
32	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pounced	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 teeth	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 teeth	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 teeth	nmod:poss
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 equal	punct
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 equal	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 equal	cop
40	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 teeth	amod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 nails	case
42	sixpenny	sixpenny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 nails	amod
43	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 equal	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 road	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 road	cc
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 wings	nmod:poss
47	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 road	nsubj
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 luck	punct
49	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 luck	amod
50	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wings	conj
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 road	cop
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 road	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 road	nmod:poss
54	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get away	past	I	Enniscorthy's teeth		from Enniscorthy; away, somehow property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source
2	pass	past · progressive	I		the door		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location
3	is a	must	door	the divel			tree rules
4	pounce down	past	Enniscorthy			on me; with Enniscorthy's claws	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Trajectory
5	is	past	that			to sixpenny nails; equal property	tree rules
6	is	infinitive	Enniscorthy's wings and ill luck		Enniscorthy's road		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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