Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 27

Some run to pull the fellow out, and others to let manners into the vulgarian with their swords and daggers; but a tap from his club sent them headlong into the moat or down on the stones, and they were soon begging him to stay his hands.

Who acts: Some, others, tap · What happens: run, pull out, let, send, beg, stay · To what, where: fellow, manners, vulgarian, others, Tom, hands

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 (Some, others, tap), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 run	nsubj
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pull	mark
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 run	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 pull	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 let	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 let	mark
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 run	parataxis
13	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 let	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 vulgarian	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vulgarian	det
16	vulgarian	vulgarian	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 swords	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 swords	nmod:poss
19	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 vulgarian	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 daggers	cc
21	daggers	dagger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 swords	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sent	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 sent	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tap	det
25	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	nsubj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 club	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 club	nmod:poss
28	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tap	nmod
29	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 run	parataxis
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sent	obj
31	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sent	xcomp
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 moat	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moat	det
34	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 headlong	obl
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 down	cc
36	down	down	ADV	_	34 moat	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 stones	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stones	det
39	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 down	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 begging	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 begging	cc
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 begging	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 begging	aux
44	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 begging	advmod
45	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 sent	advcl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 begging	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 stay	mark
48	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 begging	advcl
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 hands	nmod:poss
50	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 stay	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	present	Some					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull out	to-infinitive	Some not said here	the fellow				tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive	others	manners		the vulgarian with others's swords and daggers		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Theme
4	send	past	a tap from Tom's club	others = other			headlong property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	beg speech: request	past · progressive	others = other		Tom		soon property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	stay	to-infinitive	others = other not said here	Tom's hands				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location

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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