Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 23

"That's the very thing for me to try," says Tom; and so, without burning any more daylight, he kissed his mother, curled his club at the little boys, and off he set along the yalla highroad to the town of Dublin.

Who acts: That, Tom, mother, o · What happens: be, try, say, burn, kiss, curl · To what, where: thing, more daylight, mother, club, yalla highroad · 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 (That, Tom, mother, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 thing	advmod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 try	mark
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 so	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 so	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	26 kissed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burning	punct
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 burning	mark
20	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 kissed	advcl
21	any	any	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 daylight	amod
23	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 burning	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 burning	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kissed	nsubj
26	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 says	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kissed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 curled	punct
30	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 mother	acl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 club	nmod:poss
32	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 curled	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	36 boys	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 boys	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 boys	amod
36	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 curled	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 set	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 set	cc
39	off	off	ADP	_	41 set	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 set	nsubj
41	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 says	conj
42	along	along	ADP	_	45 highroad	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 highroad	det
44	yalla	yalla	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 highroad	compound
45	highroad	highroad	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 set	obl
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 town	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 town	det
48	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 set	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Dublin	case
50	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 town	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the thing		for Tom	tree rules
2	try in a quote	to-infinitive	Tom not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present	Tom				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	burn	gerund	Tom not said here	more daylight			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent daylight=Theme
5	kiss	past	Tom	o's mother			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-Agent
6	curl	participle	o's mother not said here	o's club		at the little boys	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Patient
7	set	past	o		the yalla highroad	to the town of Dublin	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent along highroad=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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