Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 20

He didn't like that at all, and it would be mean to give one of them a clout.

Who acts: o, it · What happens: not like, be, give · To what, where: that, all, one

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 (o, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 like	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 like	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mean	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mean	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 mean	cop
13	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 like	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 mean	xcomp
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 give	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 clout	det
20	clout	clout	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	o	that	all		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
2	is	would	it			mean property	tree rules
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive		one of manners			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clout=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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