Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 106

With that the lank grey beggarman took a bag from under his armpit, and from out the bag a ball of silk, and he unwound the ball and he flung it slantwise up into the clear blue heavens, and it became a ladder; then he took a hare and placed it upon the thread, and up it ran; again he took out a red-eared hound, and it swiftly ran up after the hare.

Who acts: lank grey beggarman, beggarman, ball · What happens: take out, unwind, fling, become, take, place · To what, where: bag, armpit, ball, clear blue heavens, ladder, hare

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lank grey beggarman, beggarman, ball), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 took	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beggarman	det
4	lank	lank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beggarman	amod
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beggarman	amod
6	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 armpit	case
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 armpit	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 armpit	nmod:poss
13	armpit	armpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 out	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 out	cc
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 out	case
17	out	out	ADP	_	7 took	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bag	det
19	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ball	det
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 silk	case
23	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ball	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unwound	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 unwound	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 unwound	nsubj
27	unwound	unwind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ball	det
29	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 unwound	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flung	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 flung	nsubj
32	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 unwound	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 flung	obj
34	slantwise	slantwise	ADV	_	35 up	advmod
35	up	up	ADV	_	32 flung	advmod
36	into	into	ADP	_	40 heavens	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 heavens	det
38	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 heavens	amod
39	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 heavens	amod
40	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 flung	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 became	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 became	cc
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 became	nsubj
44	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 ladder	det
46	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 became	xcomp
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 took	punct
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 took	advmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 took	nsubj
50	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 hare	det
52	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 took	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 placed	cc
54	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 took	conj
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 placed	obj
56	upon	upon	ADP	_	58 thread	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 thread	det
58	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 placed	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 ran	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 ran	cc
61	up	up	ADP	_	63 ran	mark
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 ran	nsubj
63	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 took	conj
64	;	;	PUNCT	_	67 took	punct
65	again	again	ADV	_	67 took	advmod
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 took	nsubj
67	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 took	conj
68	out	out	ADP	_	67 took	compound:prt
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 hound	det
70	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 eared	amod
71	-	-	PUNCT	_	70 red	punct
72	eared	ear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	73 hound	amod
73	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 took	obj
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 ran	punct
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 ran	cc
76	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 ran	nsubj
77	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	78 ran	advmod
78	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 took	conj
79	up	up	ADP	_	78 ran	compound:prt
80	after	after	ADP	_	82 hare	case
81	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	82 hare	det
82	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 ran	obl
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	the lank grey beggarman	a bag		beggarman's armpit		with that	tree rules
2	unwind	past	beggarman	the ball					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
3	fling	past	beggarman	ball		the clear blue heavens			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into heaven=Destination
4	become	past	ball	a ladder					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	take	past	beggarman		a hare		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hare=Destination
6	place	past	beggarman not said here	hare		the thread			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon thread=Destination
7	run	past	ball						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	take out	past	beggarman	a eared hound			again		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Theme
9	ear	participle							tree rules
10	run up	past	ball				after the hare	swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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