Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 19
Well, now, Tom was prouder nor ten paycocks, and used to take a walk down street in the heel of the evening; but some o' the little boys had no more manners than if they were Dublin jackeens, and put out their tongues at Tom's club and Tom's goat-skin.
Who acts: Tom, o, manners, Dublin jackeens · What happens: be, use, take, have, put out · To what, where: walk, heel, more manners, tongues, club
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, o, manners, Dublin jackeens), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 prouder | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 prouder | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prouder | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prouder | cop |
| 7 | prouder | proud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 paycocks | cc |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 paycocks | nummod |
| 10 | paycocks | paycock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prouder | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 used | cc |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 prouder | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 walk | det |
| 17 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 street | advmod |
| 19 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 heel | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heel | det |
| 22 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 evening | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 evening | det |
| 25 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heel | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 but | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 prouder | conj |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 o | det |
| 29 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 had | nsubj |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 had | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 boys | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 boys | amod |
| 33 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 had | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 but | ccomp |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 manners | det |
| 36 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 manners | amod |
| 37 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 34 had | obj |
| 38 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 jackeens | case |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 jackeens | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 jackeens | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 jackeens | cop |
| 42 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 jackeens | compound |
| 43 | jackeens | jackeen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 manners | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 put | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 put | cc |
| 46 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 jackeens | acl |
| 47 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 put | compound:prt |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 49 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 put | obj |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 club | case |
| 51 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 club | nmod:poss |
| 52 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 51 Tom | case |
| 53 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 put | obl |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 skin | cc |
| 55 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 skin | nmod:poss |
| 56 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 55 Tom | case |
| 57 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 skin | compound |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 goat | punct |
| 59 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 club | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prouder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tom | now | proud property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | Tom not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | a walk | the heel of the evening | street obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent walk=Value in heel=Location | ||
| 4 | have | past | some o | no more manners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | manners | than Dublin jackeens | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put out | participle | Dublin jackeens not said here | manners's tongues | Tom's club and Tom's goat skin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at club=Destination |
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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