Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 3

So Tom stole on, going on the tops of his toes to try if he could get a sight of what was making the noise, to see if he was right in his guess.

Who acts: Tom, sight · What happens: steal, go, try, get, make, see · To what, where: tops, sight, noise, guess

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, sight), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stole	advmod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 stole	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stole	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tops	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tops	det
9	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 going	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 toes	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 toes	nmod:poss
12	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tops	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 try	mark
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 get	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sight	det
20	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 making	mark
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 making	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 making	aux
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sight	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 noise	det
26	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 get	conj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 right	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 right	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 right	cop
33	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 see	ccomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 guess	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 guess	nmod:poss
36	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 right	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Tom				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	gerund	Tom not said here		the tops of Tom's toes		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	to-infinitive	Tom not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get a condition, not said to happen	could	Tom	a sight			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
5	make	past · progressive	a sight	the noise			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material noise=Product
6	see	to-infinitive	Tom not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Tom		Tom's guess	right property	tree rules
8	guess		Tom				nom guess «communication transitive»: poss=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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