Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 66

In vain did he take refuge with his wife, she kicked him back again to the hounds, until at length the beggar stopped the hounds, and with a stroke of the wand, panting and breathless, the story-teller stood before them again.

Who acts: man, wife, beggar, wand, story teller · What happens: take, kick back, stop, pant, stand, stroke · To what, where: refuge, vain, man, hounds, length, wand

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, wife, beggar, wand), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 take	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kicked	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kicked	nsubj
12	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kicked	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 kicked	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	12 kicked	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 hounds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hounds	det
18	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kicked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stopped	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 stopped	mark
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 length	case
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stopped	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beggar	det
24	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stopped	nsubj
25	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kicked	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hounds	det
27	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stopped	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stood	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 stood	cc
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 stroke	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 stroke	det
32	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stood	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 wand	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wand	det
35	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stroke	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 panting	punct
37	panting	pant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 wand	acl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 breathless	cc
39	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 panting	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stroke	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 teller	det
42	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 teller	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 story	punct
44	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stood	nsubj
45	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	parataxis
46	before	before	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 stood	obl
48	again	again	ADV	_	45 stood	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	man	refuge	vain		with man's wife	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in vain=Location
2	kick back	past	wife	man		again	to the hounds result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to hound=Result
3	stop	past	the beggar	the hounds	length			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hound=Eventuality
4	pant	gerund	the wand not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand	past	the story teller			before hounds = hound; again	with a stroke of the wand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
6	stroke			the wand				nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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