Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 34
Andrew Coffey would neither stop nor stay, but he took to his heels and was out of the house as hard as he could.
Who acts: Andrew · What happens: stop, stay, take, be · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andrew), 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 | Andrew | Andrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | Coffey | Coffey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Andrew | flat |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | cc:preconj |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 stay | cc |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stop | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 heels | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heels | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 house | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 house | cop |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 hard | advmod |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 took | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 could | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 could | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hard | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | Andrew | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | Andrew not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Andrew | to Andrew's heels result; hard property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Andrew not said here | the house | 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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