Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 91
Tom run at him as soon as he could rise, caught his hands in his own two, and rubbed them this way and that, and the burning pain left them before you could reckon one.
Who acts: Tom, burning pain, you · What happens: run, rise, catch, rub, leave, reckon · To what, where: hands, own two, one
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, burning pain, you), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 run | nsubj |
| 2 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 run | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 run | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 rise | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rise | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 rise | aux |
| 10 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 soon | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 run | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 caught | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 two | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 two | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 two | amod |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 caught | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rubbed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rubbed | cc |
| 21 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rubbed | obj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rubbed | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 that | cc |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 way | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 left | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pain | det |
| 30 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pain | compound |
| 31 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 left | nsubj |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 left | obj |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 37 reckon | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 reckon | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 reckon | aux |
| 37 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 left | advcl |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 reckon | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Tom | at flail; soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | rise | could | Tom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | Tom's hands | Tom's own two | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rub | past | hands = hand | this way obl:unmarked | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | the burning pain | hands = hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | reckon | could | you | one | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent one=Attribute |
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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