Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 26
Tom done nothing but take the fellow by the scruff o' the neck and the waistband of his corduroys, and fling him into the canal.
What happens: do, take, fling · To what, where: fellow, Tom, canal
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: 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 | 3 nothing | nsubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nothing | amod |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 take | cc |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 scruff | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 scruff | det |
| 10 | scruff | scruff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 neck | case |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 neck | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neck | det |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scruff | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 waistband | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 waistband | det |
| 17 | waistband | waistband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 neck | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 corduroys | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 corduroys | nmod:poss |
| 20 | corduroys | corduroy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 waistband | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fling | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fling | cc |
| 23 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fling | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 canal | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 canal | det |
| 27 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the fellow | by the scruff of the neck and the waistband of Tom's corduroys | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fellow=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fling | infinitive | Tom | the canal | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into canal=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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