Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 2
At last, by hook or by crook, she got a goat-skin, and fastened it round his waist, and he felt quite grand, and took a walk down the street.
Who acts: woman, Enniscorth · What happens: get, fasten, feel, take · To what, where: goat skin, last hook, skin, walk
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 (woman, Enniscorth), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 hook | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hook | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hook | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 hook | case |
| 5 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 crook | cc |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 crook | case |
| 8 | crook | crook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hook | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hook | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 skin | det |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 goat | punct |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fastened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fastened | cc |
| 18 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fastened | obj |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 waist | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 waist | nmod:poss |
| 22 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fastened | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 felt | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 grand | advmod |
| 28 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 felt | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 took | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 took | cc |
| 31 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 felt | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 walk | det |
| 33 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obj |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 street | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 street | det |
| 36 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | woman | a goat skin | last hook or crook | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent skin=Theme at hook=Asset | |||
| 2 | fasten | past | woman not said here | skin | round Enniscorth's waist | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | feel | past | Enniscorth | grand property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Enniscorth not said here | a walk | down the street | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=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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