Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 93

The lad put the three straws on his hand, and a finger on either outside straw and he blew; and what happened but that the fist was blown away with the straw.

Who acts: lad, money · What happens: put, blow, happen, blow away · To what, where: three straws, hand, fist

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 (lad, money), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 straws	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 straws	nummod
6	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finger	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 finger	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 finger	det
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 straw	case
15	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	17 straw	det
16	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 straw	amod
17	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 blew	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 blew	nsubj
20	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 happened	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 happened	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 happened	nsubj
24	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 blown	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 blown	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fist	det
28	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blown	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 blown	aux:pass
30	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 happened	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 blown	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 straw	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 straw	det
34	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blown	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	the lad	the three straws	money's hand	on either outside straw; a finger obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent straw=Theme on hand=Destination
2	blow	past	money				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	happen	past					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	blow away	past · passive		the fist		with the straw; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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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