Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 76

Hand that flail," says he to a young imp; and he winked the far-off eye at the same time.

Who acts: that, Hand flail, flail · What happens: flail, say, wink · To what, where: Tom, young imp, off eye · 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 (that, Hand flail, flail), 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	Hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flail	compound
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 flail	nsubj
3	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flail	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 flail	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 imp	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 imp	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 imp	amod
11	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 winked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 winked	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 winked	nsubj
15	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eye	det
17	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 off	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 far	punct
19	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eye	compound
20	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 winked	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 time	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 winked	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	flail		that				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Hand flail	Tom	a young imp		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to imp=Recipient
3	wink in a quote	past	flail	the off eye		time	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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