Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 21

At last, what should come through the town but a kind of a bellman, only it's a big bugle he had, and a huntsman's cap on his head, and a kind of a painted shirt.

Who acts: walk, o · What happens: come, be, have, paint · To what, where: cap, last, big bugle

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 (walk, o), 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	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 come	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 kind	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kind	det
12	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 town	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 bellman	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bellman	det
15	bellman	bellman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kind	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bugle	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	22 bugle	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bugle	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bugle	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bugle	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bugle	amod
22	bugle	bugle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 town	appos
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bugle	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cap	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cap	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 huntsman	det
28	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cap	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 huntsman	case
30	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cap	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 kind	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 kind	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 kind	det
37	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 shirt	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 shirt	det
40	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 shirt	amod
41	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kind	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	should		a huntsman's cap on o's head	last	through the town but a kind of a bellman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial_Location
2	is a	present	walk	a big bugle			tree rules
3	have	past	o	a big bugle not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bugle=Patient
4	paint	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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