Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 112

Saying this he began to wind the thread, and down came the lad fast asleep; and down came the red-eared hound and in his mouth the last morsel of the hare.

Who acts: friend, lad · What happens: say, begin, come, ear · To what, where: this, wind, eared hound · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (friend, lad), 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	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	csubj
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Saying	obj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wind	mark
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thread	det
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	down	down	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lad	det
14	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 asleep	advmod
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lad	amod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
19	down	down	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hound	det
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eared	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 red	punct
24	eared	ear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hound	amod
25	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mouth	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mouth	nmod:poss
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hound	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 morsel	det
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 morsel	amod
32	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 hare	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hare	det
35	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 morsel	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		this		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	begin	past	friend	wind		tree rules
3	come	past	the lad		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	friend not said here	the eared hound and friend's mouth	the last morsel of the hare obl; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ear	participle				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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