Celtic Fairy Tales, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.", sentence 3

It seemed to him there wasn't a stone but was for his stumbling, not a branch but beat his face, not a bramble but tore his skin.

Who acts: It · What happens: seem, be, beat, tore · To what, where: grandfather, face, skin

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, "andrew Coffey, Andrew Coffey, It's the Death of You I'll Be.". The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	xcomp
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stone	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 stumbling	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stumbling	cop
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 stumbling	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stumbling	nmod:poss
14	stumbling	stumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 branch	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 branch	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 branch	det
18	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stumbling	appos
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 beat	cc
20	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bramble	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 bramble	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bramble	det
26	bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 face	conj
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 tore	cc
28	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 beat	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 skin	nmod:poss
30	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tore	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		grandfather		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	past				for grandfather's stumbling	tree rules
3	beat	past		grandfather's face and a bramble			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme
4	tore	past		grandfather's skin			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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