Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 72

It wasn't long till the gate was thrune open, and the Ould Boy received Tom with bows and scrapes, and axed his business.

Who acts: divel, gate, Ould Boy · What happens: not be, be, receive, ax · To what, where: Tom, business

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 (divel, gate, Ould Boy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 received	advmod
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 open	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 open	cop
9	thrune	thrune	X	Foreign=Yes	10 open	dep
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 received	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 received	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Boy	det
14	Ould	Ould	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Boy	compound
15	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 received	nsubj
16	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 received	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 bows	case
19	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 received	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 scrapes	cc
21	scrapes	scrape	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bows	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 axed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 axed	cc
24	axed	ax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 received	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 business	nmod:poss
26	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 axed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	divel		long property	tree rules
2	is	past	the gate		open property	tree rules
3	receive	past	the Ould Boy	Tom	with bows and scrapes	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme
4	ax	past	the Ould Boy not said here	Tom's business		tree rules

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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