Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 136

When the harpers heard this, they drew their swords and rushed at him, but instead of striking him, their blows fell on each other, and soon not a man but was cracking his neighbour's skull and getting his own cracked in turn.

Who acts: harpers, sounds, blows, own · What happens: hear, draw, rush, strike, fall, crack · To what, where: this, swords, sword, man, each, skull

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 (harpers, sounds, blows, own), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 harpers	det
3	harpers	harper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drew	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drew	nsubj
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 swords	nmod:poss
10	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drew	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rushed	cc
12	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drew	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rushed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 striking	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 striking	cc
17	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 striking	mark
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 instead	fixed
19	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 drew	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 striking	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 blows	nmod:poss
23	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drew	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 each	case
26	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	24 fell	obl
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 each	fixed
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 man	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 man	cc
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 man	advmod
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 man	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 cracking	cc
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cracking	aux
36	cracking	crack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 fell	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 neighbour	nmod:poss
38	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 skull	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 neighbour	case
40	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cracking	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 getting	cc
42	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 cracking	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 own	nmod:poss
44	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 getting	obj
45	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 getting	xcomp
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 turn	case
47	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cracked	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the harpers	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	draw	past	sounds = sound	sounds's swords			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
3	rush	past	sounds = sound not said here			at sword	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
4	strike	gerund	sounds = sound not said here	sword			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
5	fall	past	sounds's blows	a man	each		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on each=Location
6	crack	past · progressive	sounds's blows not said here	man's neighbour's skull			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme
7	get	gerund	sounds's blows not said here	man's own			tree rules
8	crack	participle	man's own not said here		turn		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in turn=Location
9	blow		sounds = sound				nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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