Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 5

So, accordingly, he pulled up a fir-tree, and, after lopping off the roots and branches, made a walking-stick of it, and set out on his way to Oonagh.

Who acts: Clear · What happens: pull up, lop off, make, set out · To what, where: fir tree, roots, walking stick, way

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 (Clear), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 pulled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pulled	punct
3	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	6 pulled	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pulled	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pulled	nsubj
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pulled	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
9	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fir	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulled	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 lopping	mark
16	lopping	lop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 made	advcl
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 lopping	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roots	det
19	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lopping	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 branches	cc
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 roots	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lopping	punct
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pulled	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stick	det
25	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stick	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 walking	punct
27	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stick	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pulled	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 way	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 way	nmod:poss
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Oonagh	case
38	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 way	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull up	past	Clear	a fir tree		accordingly property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	lop off	gerund		the roots and branches			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme
3	make	past	Clear not said here	a walking stick of stick			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stick=Product
4	set out	past	Clear not said here		Clear's way to Oonagh		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/22/5/