Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 38

He struck the fellow's elbow with the club, and up over their heads flew the sword, and down went the owner of it on the gravel from a thump he got on the helmet.

Who acts: Tom, heads · What happens: strike, fly, go, get · To what, where: elbow, sword, owner, gravel, thump, helmet

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, heads), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fellow	det
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elbow	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fellow	case
6	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 club	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 club	det
9	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flew	cc
12	up	up	ADV	_	15 heads	advmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 heads	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heads	nmod:poss
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flew	nsubj
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sword	det
18	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flew	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	down	down	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struck	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 owner	det
24	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 owner	nmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 gravel	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gravel	det
29	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 thump	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thump	det
32	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thump	acl:relcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 helmet	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 helmet	det
37	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	Tom	the fellow's elbow		with the club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent elbow=Patient with club=Instrument
2	fly	past	swords's heads	the sword			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme
3	go	past	Tom not said here	the owner of owner	the gravel	from a thump; down property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location owner=Theme
4	get	past	Tom	a thump not said here	the helmet		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thump=Theme on helmet=Source

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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