Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 6
Well become Tom, he jumped a-one side, and picked up a ram-pike; and the first crack he gave the big fellow, he made him kiss the clod.
Who acts: Tom, first crack, crack · What happens: become, jump, pick up, give, make, kiss · To what, where: Tom, one side, ram pike, big fellow, crack, clod
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, first crack, crack), 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 | _ | 2 become | discourse |
| 2 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 become | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 become | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 a | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 side | nummod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 picked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 picked | cc |
| 13 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 jumped | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 picked | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pike | det |
| 16 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pike | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ram | punct |
| 18 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 picked | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crack | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 crack | amod |
| 23 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fellow | det |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fellow | amod |
| 28 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gave | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 made | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 clod | det |
| 35 | clod | clod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kiss | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | infinitive | Tom | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient tom=Result | |||||
| 2 | jump | past | Tom | a one side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | pick up | participle | Tom not said here | a ram pike | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Topic | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the first crack | the big fellow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past | Tom | crack | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | kiss | infinitive | crack not said here | the clod | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clod=Co-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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