Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 78

The little vagabond was grinning to think how it would burn the hands o' Tom, but the dickens a burn it made on him, no more nor if it was a good oak sapling.

Who acts: little vagabond, vagabond · What happens: grin, think, burn, make, be · To what, where: dickens, hands, burn, more good oak sapling · 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 (little vagabond, vagabond), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vagabond	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vagabond	amod
3	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grinning	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grinning	aux
5	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grinning	xcomp
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 burn	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 burn	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 burn	aux
11	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hands	det
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 burn	obj
14	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	16 Tom	case
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 Tom	punct
16	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hands	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dickens	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 dickens	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dickens	det
20	dickens	dickens	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grinning	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 burn	det
22	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dickens	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 burn	acl:relcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sapling	punct
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 sapling	det
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 sapling	amod
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 sapling	cc
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 sapling	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sapling	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sapling	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sapling	det
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sapling	amod
36	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sapling	compound
37	sapling	sapling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dickens	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grinning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grin	past · progressive	the little vagabond	the dickens nor no more good oak sapling		tree rules
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the little vagabond not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	burn	would	vagabond	the hands of Tom		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	make	past	vagabond	a burn not said here	on Tom	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material burn=Product
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	vagabond	no more good oak sapling		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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