Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 157

He had but the one chance, and a short one at that; but he took it, and hit the spot, and the whale, mad with pain, made the sea all around red with blood, and died.

Who acts: cowboy, whale · What happens: have, take, hit, make, die · To what, where: one chance, chance, spot, sea

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cowboy, whale), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 chance	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chance	det
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 chance	nummod
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 one	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hit	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hit	cc
21	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spot	det
23	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hit	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 made	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 whale	det
27	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mad	punct
29	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 whale	appos
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 pain	case
31	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mad	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 whale	punct
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hit	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
36	all	all	ADV	_	38 red	advmod
37	around	around	ADP	_	38 red	case
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 made	xcomp
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 blood	case
40	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 red	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 died	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 died	cc
43	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hit	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	cowboy	the one chance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
2	take	past	cowboy	chance		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	hit	past	cowboy not said here	the spot		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spot=Co-Theme
4	make	past	the whale	the sea	red property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Product
5	die	past	cowboy not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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