Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 29

Well, they all stopped when they seen the young giant, with his boy's face, and long black hair, and his short curly beard--for his poor mother couldn't afford to buy razors--and his great strong arms, and bare legs, and no covering but the goat-skin that reached from his waist to his knees.

Who acts: others, short curly beard, goat skin · What happens: stop, see, not afford, buy, reach · To what, where: great strong arms, young giant, razors, waist

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 (others, short curly beard, goat skin), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stopped	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 seen	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stopped	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 giant	amod
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 face	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 face	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 boy	nmod:poss
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 boy	case
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hair	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hair	cc
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hair	amod
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hair	amod
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 afford	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 afford	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 beard	nmod:poss
26	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beard	amod
27	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beard	amod
28	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 afford	nsubj
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 afford	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 afford	mark
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mother	amod
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 afford	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 afford	aux
35	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 afford	advmod
36	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stopped	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 buy	mark
38	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 afford	xcomp
39	razors	razor	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 buy	obj
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 arms	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 arms	cc
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 arms	nmod:poss
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 arms	amod
44	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 arms	amod
45	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stopped	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 legs	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 legs	cc
48	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 legs	amod
49	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 arms	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 covering	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 covering	cc
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	53 covering	det
53	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	parataxis
54	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 skin	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 skin	det
56	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 skin	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 goat	punct
58	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 covering	conj
59	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 reached	nsubj
60	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 skin	acl:relcl
61	from	from	ADP	_	63 waist	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 waist	nmod:poss
63	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 reached	obl
64	to	to	ADP	_	66 knees	case
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 knees	nmod:poss
66	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 reached	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	others = other	beard's great strong arms and bare legs			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	see	participle	others = other	the young giant		with giant's boy's face and long black hair	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus
3	not afford	could	giant's short curly beard				tree rules
4	buy	to-infinitive	giant's short curly beard not said here	razors			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=Theme
5	reach	past	the goat skin		beard's waist	to beard's knees	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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