Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 92

Well the poor fellow, between the pain that was only just gone, and the comfort he was in, had the comicalest face that you ever see, it was such a mixtherum-gatherum of laughing and crying.

Who acts: poor fellow, comfort, you, pain, mixtherum gatherum · What happens: be, have, see, laugh, cry · To what, where: comfort, comicalest face, mixtherum gatherum

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 (poor fellow, comfort, you, pain), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	13 gone	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fellow	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellow	amod
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pain	punct
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 pain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pain	det
8	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fellow	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 gone	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 comfort	det
17	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 in	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 in	cop
20	in	in	ADV	_	17 comfort	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comfort	punct
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 face	det
24	comicalest	comical	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 face	amod
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 see	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 see	advmod
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 face	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gatherum	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gatherum	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gatherum	cop
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 gatherum	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 gatherum	det
35	mixtherum	mixtherum	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gatherum	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 mixtherum	punct
37	gatherum	gatherum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	parataxis
38	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 laughing	mark
39	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 gatherum	acl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 crying	cc
41	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 laughing	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor fellow and the pain			gone property	tree rules
2	is	past	comfort	the comfort not said here		in property	tree rules
3	have	past	the comfort	the comicalest face			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
4	see	present	you	the comicalest face	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
5	is a	past	pain	such mixtherum gatherum			tree rules
6	laugh	gerund	such mixtherum gatherum not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cry speech: express	gerund	such mixtherum gatherum not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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