Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 62

To make a long story short, the story-teller made his choice of a hare; the old man threw the cord round him, struck him with the wand, and lo! a long-eared, frisking hare was skipping and jumping on the green.

Who acts: story teller, old man, hare · What happens: make, throw, strike, frisk, skip, jump · To what, where: long story, choice, cord, man, green

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 (story teller, old man, hare), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teller	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teller	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 story	punct
11	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 choice	nmod:poss
14	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hare	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hare	det
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 choice	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 threw	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	nsubj
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cord	det
24	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obj
25	round	round	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 struck	punct
28	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 threw	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 struck	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 wand	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wand	det
32	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 struck	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 eared	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 eared	cc
35	lo	lo	INTJ	_	40 eared	discourse
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 lo	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 eared	det
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 eared	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 long	punct
40	eared	eared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 frisking	punct
42	frisking	frisk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 eared	advcl
43	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 skipping	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 skipping	aux
45	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 frisking	ccomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 jumping	cc
47	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 skipping	conj
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 green	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 green	det
50	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 jumping	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	the story teller not said here	a long story		short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product
2	make	past	the story teller	teller's choice of a hare			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product
3	throw	past	the old man	the cord		round teller	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme
4	strike	past	the old man not said here	man		with the wand	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with wand=Instrument
5	frisk	gerund	the story teller not said here				tree rules
6	skip	past · progressive	hare				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	jump	gerund	hare not said here		the green		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on green=Trajectory

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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