Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 90
His fingers hardly touched it, when he let a roar out of him as if heaven and earth were coming together, and kept flinging his arms about and dancing, that it was pitiful to look at him.
Who acts: fingers, Tom, heaven, end · What happens: touch, let, come together, keep, fling, dance · To what, where: end, roar, arms
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 (fingers, Tom, heaven, end), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 touched | advmod |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touched | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 let | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 roar | det |
| 11 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 coming | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 coming | mark |
| 17 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coming | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 earth | cc |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heaven | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 coming | aux |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 let | advcl |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 coming | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kept | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 kept | cc |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | parataxis |
| 26 | flinging | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 kept | xcomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 arms | nmod:poss |
| 28 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flinging | obj |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 flinging | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dancing | cc |
| 31 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 flinging | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pitiful | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 pitiful | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pitiful | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 pitiful | cop |
| 36 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 kept | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 look | mark |
| 38 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 pitiful | advcl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 look | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | Tom's fingers | end | hardly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | let | past | Tom | a roar | out flail | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | |||
| 3 | come together | past · progressive | heaven and earth | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fling | gerund | Tom's arms | about property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 6 | dance | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | end | pitiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | look | to-infinitive | end not said here | at Tom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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