Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 54

But Tom shook his head, and never stopped the tune, and Redhead never stopped dancing and bawling, and the wolf dancing and roaring, one leg up and the other down, and he ready to drop out of his standing from fair tiresomeness.

Who acts: Tom, Redhead · What happens: shake up, not stop, dance, bawl, roar, drop out · To what, where: head, tune, standing, fair tiresomeness

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, Redhead), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 shook	cc
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shook	nsubj
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stopped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stopped	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 stopped	advmod
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tune	det
11	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stopped	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stopped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stopped	cc
14	Redhead	Redhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 stopped	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 stopped	advmod
16	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	conj
17	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 stopped	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bawling	cc
19	bawling	bawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 dancing	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dancing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dancing	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dancing	det
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dancing	compound
24	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 roaring	cc
26	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 dancing	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 leg	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 leg	nummod
29	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dancing	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	3 shook	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 down	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 down	advmod
34	down	down	ADP	_	3 shook	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ready	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ready	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ready	nsubj
38	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shook	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 drop	mark
40	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ready	xcomp
41	out	out	ADP	_	44 standing	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 standing	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 standing	nmod:poss
44	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drop	obl
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 tiresomeness	case
46	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 tiresomeness	amod
47	tiresomeness	tiresomeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drop	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	shake up	past	Tom	Tom's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	not stop	past	Tom not said here	the tune		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tune=Eventuality
3	not stop	past	Redhead			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	dance	gerund	Redhead not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bawl speech: other	gerund	Redhead not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	roar	gerund	Tom not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	drop out	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	Tom's standing	fair tiresomeness	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent standing=Theme from tiresomeness=Destination
8	stand		Tom			nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=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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