Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 84

So one fellow put out his claws to seize on the flail, but Tom gave him such a welt of it on the side of the head that he broke off one of his horns, and made him roar like a devil as he was.

Who acts: Tom, fellow · What happens: put out, seize, give, break off, make, roar · To what, where: one fellow, flail, welt, fellow, side, one

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, fellow), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fellow	nummod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 claws	nmod:poss
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 seize	mark
9	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 flail	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flail	det
12	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seize	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 welt	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 welt	det
20	welt	welt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 welt	nmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 side	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 side	det
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 head	det
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 broke	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 broke	nsubj
31	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	advcl
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 broke	compound:prt
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 broke	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 horns	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 horns	nmod:poss
36	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 made	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 made	cc
39	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 made	obj
41	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 made	xcomp
42	like	like	ADP	_	44 devil	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 devil	det
44	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 roar	obl
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 was	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 was	nsubj
47	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 roar	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put out	participle · passive		one fellow				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset claw=Goal
2	seize	to-infinitive				the flail		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	Tom	such welt of welt	fellow	the side of the head		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient welt=Theme on side=Asset
4	break off	past	Tom	one of Tom's horns				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
5	make	past	Tom not said here	fellow				tree rules
6	roar	infinitive	fellow not said here				like a devil	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	be	past	fellow					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	welt			welt				nom welt «state transitive»: of=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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