Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 58

Then he snapped the loops one after another, till he took the heads off my twelve sons and threw the heads and bodies out of the house; but he did nothing to hurt his own neck.

Who acts: man · What happens: snap, take, throw, do, hurt · To what, where: loops, heads, house, nothing, own neck

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 snapped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 snapped	nsubj
3	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 loops	det
5	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snapped	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 loops	flat
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 another	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 took	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 snapped	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heads	det
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	18 sons	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sons	nmod:poss
17	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sons	nummod
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 heads	det
22	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 threw	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bodies	cc
24	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 heads	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 house	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 did	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 snapped	conj
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 did	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 hurt	mark
35	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 nothing	acl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 neck	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 neck	amod
38	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hurt	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 snapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	man	the loops		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location loop=Theme
2	take	past	man	the heads			off my twelve sons	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off son=Initial_Location
3	throw	past	man not said here	the heads and bodies	the house			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme out house=Destination
4	do	past	man	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	hurt	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's own neck				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

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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