Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 51

He pulled out his flute and began to play like vengeance; and dickens a man or boy in the yard but began shovelling away heel and toe, and the wolf himself was obliged to get on his hind legs and dance "Tatther Jack Walsh," along with the rest.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: pull out, begin, play, dicken, shovell away, oblige · To what, where: flute, man, heel, wolf, hind legs

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 pulled	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flute	nmod:poss
5	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 play	mark
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 vengeance	case
11	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 dickens	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dickens	cc
14	dickens	dicken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dickens	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 boy	cc
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 yard	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 yard	det
21	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dickens	obl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	conj
24	shovelling	shovell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 began	xcomp
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 shovelling	advmod
26	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shovelling	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 toe	cc
28	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heel	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 obliged	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 obliged	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wolf	det
32	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 obliged	nsubj:pass
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 obliged	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 obliged	aux:pass
35	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pulled	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 get	mark
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 obliged	advcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 legs	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 legs	nmod:poss
40	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 legs	amod
41	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 get	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 dance	cc
43	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 legs	conj
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Tatther	punct
45	Tatther	Tatther	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 obliged	obl
46	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Tatther	flat
47	Walsh	Walsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Tatther	flat
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 rest	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 rest	punct
50	along	along	ADP	_	53 rest	case
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 rest	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 rest	det
53	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Tatther	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull out	past	Tom	Tom's flute			tree rules
2	begin	past	Tom not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive	Tom not said here			like vengeance	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dicken	present		a man or boy		in the yard	tree rules
5	begin	past	Tom not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	shovell away	gerund	Tom not said here	heel and toe		away property	tree rules
7	oblige	past · passive		the wolf		Tatther and the rest obl	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	get	to-infinitive			Tom's hind legs and dance		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on leg=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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