Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 70

When he knocked, a hundred little imps popped their heads out through the bars, and axed him what he wanted.

Who acts: Redhead, hundred little imps · What happens: knock, pop out, ax, want · To what, where: heads, bars, Redhead

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 (Redhead, hundred little imps), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 knocked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knocked	nsubj
3	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 popped	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knocked	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 imps	nummod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 imps	amod
8	imps	imp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 popped	nsubj
9	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heads	nmod:poss
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 popped	obj
12	out	out	ADV	_	9 popped	advmod
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 bars	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bars	det
15	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 popped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 axed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 axed	cc
18	axed	ax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 popped	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 axed	obj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 wanted	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 axed	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 popped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Redhead				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	pop out	past	hundred little imps	imps's heads	the bars	out property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	ax	past	hundred little imps not said here	Redhead			tree rules
4	want	past	Redhead				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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