Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 25

Tom stood it all for a little time, but at last one of them--out of fun, as he said--drove his bayonet half an inch or so into his side.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: stand, say, drive · To what, where: club, fun, bayonet · 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 (Tom), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 it	det
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 fun	punct
17	out	out	ADP	_	19 fun	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fun	case
19	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 said	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 drove	punct
25	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bayonet	nmod:poss
27	bayonet	bayonet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drove	obj
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 inch	det:predet
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 inch	det
30	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drove	obl:unmarked
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	2 stood	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	35 side	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 side	nmod:poss
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Tom	club	fun	time	at last one of guards; into Tom's side	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at one=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Tom					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drive	past		Tom's bayonet			half inch obl:unmarked	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bayonet=Trajectory

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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