Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 21

In came the master, and began to abuse him for his assurance. "

Who acts: master · What happens: come, begin, abuse, assure · To what, where: master

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), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 came	case
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 abuse	mark
9	abuse	abuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 abuse	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 assurance	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 assurance	nmod:poss
13	assurance	assurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 abuse	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the master			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the master not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	abuse	to-infinitive	the master not said here	master	for master's assurance	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for assurance=Attribute
4	assure		master			nom assurance «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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