Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 87
So out marched Tom, and away with him, without minding the shouting and cursing they kept up at him from the tops of the walls; and when he got home to the big bawn of the palace, there never was such running and racing as to see himself and the flail.
Who acts: claws, Tom · What happens: march, mind, curse, keep up, get, be · To what, where: Tom, shouting, tops, such running
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 marched | advmod |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 marched | advmod |
| 3 | marched | march | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 marched | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 away | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 away | cc |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 marched | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 away | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 minding | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 minding | mark |
| 12 | minding | mind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 marched | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shouting | det |
| 14 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 minding | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cursing | cc |
| 16 | cursing | curse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 minding | conj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cursing | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 kept | compound:prt |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 tops | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tops | det |
| 24 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kept | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 walls | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 walls | det |
| 27 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tops | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 running | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 was | cc |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 got | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 was | advcl |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 got | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 bawn | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 bawn | det |
| 36 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bawn | amod |
| 37 | bawn | bawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 palace | det |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bawn | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 42 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 44 was | expl |
| 43 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 44 was | advmod |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 running | cop |
| 45 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 running | amod |
| 46 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marched | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 racing | cc |
| 48 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 running | conj |
| 49 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 see | mark |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 see | mark |
| 51 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 marched | advcl |
| 52 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 51 see | obj |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 flail | cc |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 flail | det |
| 55 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 himself | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | participle | Tom | away, out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mind | gerund | the shouting | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shouting=Theme | |||||
| 3 | curse | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | keep up | past | claws = claw | the tops of the walls | at Tom | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | get | past | Tom | to the big bawn of the palace result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bawn=Result | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | such running and racing | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | Tom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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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