Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 85
Well, they rushed at Tom, but he gave them, little and big, such a thrashing as they didn't forget for a while.
Who acts: claws, Tom · What happens: rush, give, not forget · To what, where: Tom, little, claws
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 (claws, Tom), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 rushed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rushed | nsubj |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Tom | case |
| 6 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 little | punct |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 big | cc |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 little | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thrashing | punct |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 thrashing | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thrashing | det |
| 19 | thrashing | thrashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 forget | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forget | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 forget | aux |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 forget | advmod |
| 24 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 while | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 while | det |
| 27 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forget | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | claws = claw | Tom | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tom=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Tom | little | claws = claw | such thrashing obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient little=Theme | ||
| 3 | not forget | past · do-support | claws = claw | while | 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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