Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 41

So Tom ran for dear life, till he came home and got a spade, and then away with him, as hard as he could go, back to the field of boliauns; but when he got there, lo and behold! not a boliaun in the field but had a red garter, the very model of his own, tied about it; and as to digging up the whole field, that was all nonsense, for there were more than forty good Irish acres in it.

Who acts: Tom, that, forty good Irish acres · What happens: run, come, get, go, have, tie · To what, where: spade, boliaun, red garter, whole field, nonsense

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, that, forty good Irish acres), 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 ran	advmod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spade	det
15	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 away	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 away	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 away	advmod
19	away	away	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 away	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hard	punct
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 hard	advmod
24	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ran	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hard	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 back	punct
30	back	back	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 field	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 field	det
33	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 back	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 boliauns	case
35	boliauns	boliaun	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 field	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 got	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 got	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 got	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 got	nsubj
40	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 got	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lo	punct
43	lo	lo	INTJ	_	49 boliaun	discourse
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 behold	cc
45	behold	behold	INTJ	_	43 lo	conj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 lo	punct
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 boliaun	advmod
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 boliaun	det
49	boliaun	boliaun	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 got	obl
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 field	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 field	det
52	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 boliaun	nmod
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 had	cc
54	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 garter	det
56	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 garter	amod
57	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 had	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 model	punct
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 model	det
60	very	very	ADV	_	61 model	advmod
61	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 garter	appos
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 own	case
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 own	nmod:poss
64	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 model	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 tied	punct
66	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 garter	acl
67	about	about	ADP	_	68 it	case
68	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 tied	obl
69	;	;	PUNCT	_	73 digging	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 digging	cc
71	as	as	SCONJ	_	73 digging	mark
72	to	to	ADP	_	71 as	fixed
73	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
74	up	up	ADP	_	73 digging	compound:prt
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 field	det
76	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 field	amod
77	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 digging	obj
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 nonsense	punct
79	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	82 nonsense	nsubj
80	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	82 nonsense	cop
81	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	82 nonsense	det
82	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 digging	parataxis
83	,	,	PUNCT	_	86 were	punct
84	for	for	SCONJ	_	86 were	mark
85	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	86 were	expl
86	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	82 nonsense	parataxis
87	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	89 forty	advmod
88	than	than	ADP	_	87 more	fixed
89	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	92 acres	nummod
90	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	92 acres	amod
91	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	92 acres	amod
92	acres	acre	NOUN	Number=Plur	86 were	nsubj
93	in	in	ADP	_	94 it	case
94	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	92 acres	nmod
95	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	Tom			for dear life; away, hard property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary
2	come	past	Tom			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	Tom not said here	a spade			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spade=Stimulus
4	go	could	Tom				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	past	Tom	a boliaun in the field	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	have	past	Tom not said here	a red garter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garter=Patient
7	tie	participle		a red garter not said here		about model	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	dig up	gerund	Tom not said here	the whole field			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Theme
9	is a	past	that	all nonsense			tree rules
10	be	past	forty good Irish acres in nonsense		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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