Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 87

Well, at last I reached the stable, and there, by way of salute, I got a pelt from a sledge-hammer that sent me half a mile off.

Who acts: I, sledge hammer · What happens: reach, get, send off · To what, where: stable, last, pelt, sledge hammer, me

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, sledge hammer), 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	_	6 reached	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reached	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stable	det
8	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 there	cc
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 reached	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 way	case
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 salute	case
16	salute	salute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 got	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pelt	det
21	pelt	pelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	26 hammer	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hammer	det
24	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hammer	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 sledge	punct
26	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 sent	nsubj
28	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hammer	acl:relcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 sent	obj
30	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	32 mile	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mile	det
32	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sent	obl:unmarked
33	off	off	ADP	_	28 sent	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	I	the stable	last; there	by way of salute	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stable=Theme at last=Asset
2	get	past	I	a pelt	a sledge hammer		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pelt=Theme from hammer=Source
3	send off	past	a sledge hammer	me		half mile obl:unmarked	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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