Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 58
He said no more, but spit in his fist, and gave a flourish of his club.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: say, give, flourish · To what, where: more, flourish, club · Speech: someone speaks here
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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spit | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 spit | cc |
| 7 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fist | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fist | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spit | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flourish | det |
| 15 | flourish | flourish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 club | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 club | nmod:poss |
| 18 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flourish | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | more | spit in Tom's fist obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | past | Tom not said here | a flourish of Tom's club | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flourish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flourish | Tom's club | nom flourish «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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