Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 65

Round the field ran a high wall, so that run as he might, he couldn't get out, and mightily diverted were beggar and lady to see him twist and double.

Who acts: man · What happens: run, not get out, divert, be, see, twist · To what, where: high wall, field, diverted beggar, man

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 (man), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 field	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wall	amod
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 run	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 run	advmod
10	that	that	ADV	_	11 run	advmod
11	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 might	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 might	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 run	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 get	advmod
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 run	advcl
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 diverted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 diverted	cc
23	mightily	mightily	ADV	_	24 diverted	advmod
24	diverted	divert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 beggar	amod
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 beggar	cop
26	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lady	cc
28	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beggar	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ran	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 see	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 double	cc
34	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 twist	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past		a high wall	the field		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wall=Theme round field=Trajectory
2	run	present				that property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not get out	could	man			out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	divert	participle				mightily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past		diverted beggar and lady			tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive		man			tree rules
7	twist	infinitive	man not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	double	infinitive	man not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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