Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 88

When he had his story told, he laid down the flail on the stone steps, and bid no one for their lives to touch it.

Who acts: Tom, story · What happens: have, tell, lay down, bid, touch · To what, where: flail, one, story · 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 (Tom, story), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laid	nsubj
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 laid	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flail	det
12	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 steps	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 steps	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 steps	compound
16	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bid	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bid	cc
19	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bid	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 lives	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lives	nmod:poss
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 touch	mark
26	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 bid	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 touch	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Tom			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	Tom's story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lay down	past	Tom	the flail	on the stone steps	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flail=Theme on step=Destination
4	bid	past	Tom not said here	no one	for claws's lives	tree rules
5	touch	to-infinitive	Tom not said here	story		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

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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