Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 61

Poor Andrew Coffey couldn't make it all out at all, at all, and he stared at Patrick and at the fire, and he thought of the little house in the wood, till he felt quite dazed.

Who acts: Poor Andrew, Andrew, Patrick · What happens: not make out, stare, think, feel, daze · To what, where: spit, all

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 (Poor Andrew, Andrew, Patrick), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Andrew	amod
2	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
3	Coffey	Coffey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Andrew	flat
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 make	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 make	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 all	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 make	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stared	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stared	nsubj
18	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Patrick	case
20	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 stared	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fire	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Patrick	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thought	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stared	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 house	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 house	amod
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thought	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 wood	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wood	det
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 house	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 felt	punct
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 felt	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 felt	nsubj
39	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thought	conj
40	quite	quite	ADV	_	41 dazed	advmod
41	dazed	daze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 felt	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not make out	could	Poor Andrew	spit	all		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	stare	past	Andrew			at Patrick and the fire	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at patrick=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	Patrick			of the little house in the wood	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	past	Patrick				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	daze	participle	Patrick not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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