Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 13

Tom had a little more trouble with him--that's all; and the prayers he said, was to give Tom a fife; that nobody could help dancing when he was playing it.

Who acts: Tom, that, prayers, nobody · What happens: have, be, say, give, help, dance · To what, where: little more trouble, fife, Tom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, that, prayers, nobody), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trouble	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trouble	amod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 trouble	amod
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trouble	nmod
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 's	nsubj
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
12	all	all	ADV	_	11 's	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prayers	det
16	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	nsubj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
23	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 give	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fife	det
25	fife	fife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 help	punct
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 nobody	det
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 help	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 help	aux
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
31	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 help	xcomp
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 playing	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 playing	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 playing	aux
35	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 dancing	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 playing	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Tom	a little more trouble		with giant	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient
2	be	present	that			all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the prayers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	past		a fife	Tom		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient fife=Theme
5	help	could	nobody				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	dance	gerund	nobody not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	play	past · progressive	Tom	fife			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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