Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 89
If the king, and queen, and princess, made much of him before, they made ten times more of him now; but Redhead, the mean scruff-hound, stole over, and thought to catch hold of the flail to make an end of him.
Who acts: claws, Redhead · What happens: make, steal over, think, catch, hold · To what, where: princess, more, hold, end, flail
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, Redhead), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 king | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 queen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 queen | cc |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 princess | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 princess | cc |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 princess | acl |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 much | obl |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 times | nummod |
| 20 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 more | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 more | obl |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 more | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 stole | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 stole | cc |
| 27 | Redhead | Redhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 stole | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hound | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hound | det |
| 30 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hound | amod |
| 31 | scruff | scruff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hound | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 scruff | punct |
| 33 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Redhead | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Redhead | punct |
| 35 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 36 | over | over | ADV | _ | 35 stole | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 thought | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 thought | cc |
| 39 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 catch | mark |
| 41 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 thought | xcomp |
| 42 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 catch | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 flail | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 flail | det |
| 45 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hold | nmod |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 make | mark |
| 47 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 catch | advcl |
| 48 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 end | det |
| 49 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 make | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 end | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | princess not said here | before, much property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | make | past | claws = claw | more | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product | ||||
| 3 | steal over | past | Redhead | over property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | claws = claw not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | catch | to-infinitive | claws = claw not said here | hold of the flail | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | claws = claw not said here | a end of Tom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product | ||||
| 7 | hold | the flail | nom hold «act 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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