Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 122
After a little he got a blow on the other cheek, and still it was by another sheep's eye.
Who acts: master, blow · What happens: get, be · To what, where: blow, other cheek
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, blow), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 cheek | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cheek | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cheek | amod |
| 11 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eye | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 eye | cc |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 eye | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eye | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 eye | cop |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 eye | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 sheep | det |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eye | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 sheep | case |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | master | a blow | the other cheek | after a little | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blow=Theme on cheek=Source | ||
| 2 | is | past | blow | still | by another sheep's eye | 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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