Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 28

When the fellow gets angry, and begins to stamp, he'll shake you a whole townland; and it's well known that he can stop a thunderbolt, for he always carries one about him in the shape of a pancake, to show to any one that might misdoubt it."

Who acts: fellow, one · What happens: get, begin, stamp, shake, know, stop · To what, where: you, townland, thunderbolt, one, shape · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fellow, one), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gets	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gets	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begins	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 begins	cc
8	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gets	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stamp	mark
10	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begins	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shake	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shake	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 shake	aux
14	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stamp	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 shake	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 townland	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 townland	amod
18	townland	townland	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shake	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 known	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 known	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 known	nsubj:pass
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 known	aux:pass
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 known	advmod
24	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gets	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 stop	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stop	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 stop	aux
28	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 known	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 thunderbolt	det
30	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stop	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 carries	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 carries	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carries	nsubj
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	35 carries	advmod
35	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 stop	parataxis
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 carries	obj
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carries	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 shape	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 shape	det
41	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 carries	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 pancake	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 pancake	det
44	pancake	pancake	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shape	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 show	punct
46	to	to	PART	_	47 show	mark
47	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 carries	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 one	case
49	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	50 one	det
50	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 show	obl
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 misdoubt	nsubj
52	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 misdoubt	aux
53	misdoubt	misdoubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 one	acl:relcl
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 misdoubt	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gets	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	the fellow				angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	begin	present	the fellow not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	stamp	to-infinitive	the fellow not said here					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shake	future	fellow	you				vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent you=Theme townland=Destination
5	know	present · passive		townland			well property	tree rules
6	stop	can	fellow	a thunderbolt				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector thunderbolt=Eventuality
7	carry	present	fellow	one		the shape of a pancake	about Cucullin; always property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Value in shape=Location
8	show	to-infinitive	fellow not said here		any one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
9	misdoubt	might	any one	thunderbolt				tree rules

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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