Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 116

Fin then took the stone, and exchanging it for the curds, he squeezed the latter until the whey, as clear as water, oozed out in a little shower from his hand.

Who acts: Fin, son · What happens: take, exchange, squeeze, ooze out · To what, where: stone, latter, little shower

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fin, son), 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	Fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 exchanging	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 exchanging	cc
8	exchanging	exchange	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 exchanging	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 curds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 curds	det
12	curds	curd	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 exchanging	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 squeezed	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 squeezed	nsubj
15	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 latter	det
17	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 squeezed	obj
18	until	until	ADP	_	20 whey	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 whey	det
20	whey	whey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 squeezed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 clear	punct
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 clear	advmod
23	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 whey	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 water	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clear	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 oozed	punct
27	oozed	ooze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 squeezed	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 oozed	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 shower	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 shower	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 shower	amod
32	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 oozed	obl
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 hand	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hand	nmod:poss
35	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shower	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Fin	the stone		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	exchange	gerund	Fin not said here	stone			for the curds	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for curd=Co-Theme
3	squeeze	past	son	the latter		until the whey		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latter=Theme
4	ooze out	participle	son not said here		a little shower from son's hand			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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