Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 85

The cowboy drew his hand on the bride-groom, and gave a blow that sent him spinning till he stopped under a table at the other side of the room.

Who acts: cowboy, blow · What happens: draw, give, send, spin, stop · To what, where: hand, blow, cowboy, table

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 (cowboy, blow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cowboy	det
2	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 groom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 groom	det
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 groom	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bride	punct
10	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 blow	det
15	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sent	nsubj
17	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 blow	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sent	obj
19	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sent	advcl
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 stopped	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stopped	nsubj
22	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spinning	ccomp
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 table	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 table	det
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopped	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 side	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 side	amod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stopped	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 room	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 room	det
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 side	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the cowboy	cowboy's hand		on the bride groom	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on groom=Destination
2	give	past	the cowboy not said here	a blow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
3	send	past	a blow	cowboy			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	spin	gerund	a blow not said here				tree rules
5	stop	past	cowboy		a table	at the other side of the room	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Location

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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