Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 4

He stayed away a whole year, and then came back one day, dragging one foot after the other, and a poor wizened face on him, and he as cross as two sticks.

Who acts: eldest · What happens: stay away, come back, drag, wizen · To what, where: one foot

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 (eldest), 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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dragging	punct
15	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 foot	nummod
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dragging	obj
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dragging	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 face	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 face	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 face	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 face	amod
25	wizened	wizen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 face	amod
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 face	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cross	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cross	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cross	nsubj
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 cross	advmod
33	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 sticks	case
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 sticks	nummod
36	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 cross	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay away	past	eldest = eld		year	away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	eldest = eld not said here		then; day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drag	gerund	eldest = eld not said here	one foot	after the other		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
4	wizen	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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