Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 35

Tom in his hurry had never thought of bringing a spade with him, so he made up his mind to run home and fetch one; and that he might know the place again he took off one of his red garters, and tied it round the boliaun.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: not think, bring, make up, run, fetch, know · To what, where: Tom, spade, mind, one, place

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), 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	7 thought	nsubj:pass
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hurry	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hurry	nmod:poss
4	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 thought	advmod
7	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 bringing	mark
9	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thought	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spade	det
11	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bringing	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bringing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 made	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 made	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mind	nmod:poss
20	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 run	mark
22	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	advcl
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 run	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fetch	cc
25	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 run	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 fetch	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 know	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 know	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 know	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 know	aux
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 place	det
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 know	obj
35	again	again	ADV	_	37 took	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	nsubj
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 know	parataxis
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 took	compound:prt
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 took	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 garters	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 garters	nmod:poss
42	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 garters	amod
43	garters	garter	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 one	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tied	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 tied	cc
46	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 took	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 tied	obj
48	round	round	ADP	_	50 boliaun	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 boliaun	det
50	boliaun	boliaun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 tied	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Tom in Tom's hurry			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	bring	gerund		a spade		with Tom	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spade=Theme
3	make up	past	Tom	Tom's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
4	run	to-infinitive	Tom not said here			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fetch	infinitive	Tom not said here	one			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	know	might	Tom	the place			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
7	take off	past	Tom	one of Tom's red garters	again		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
8	tie	past	Tom not said here	place		round the boliaun	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
9	hurry		Tom				nom hurry «state transitive»: poss=agent
10	mind		Tom				nom mind «cognition 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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