Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 42

So Tom came home again with his spade on his shoulder, a little cooler than he went, and many's the hearty curse he gave the Lepracaun every time he thought of the neat turn he had served him.

Who acts: Tom, many · What happens: come, go, give, think, serve · To what, where: Lepracaun, time, curse

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, many), 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 came	advmod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 spade	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 spade	nmod:poss
8	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shoulder	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulder	nmod:poss
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spade	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cooler	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cooler	obl
15	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 came	conj
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 went	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cooler	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gave	nsubj
22	's	's	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 curse	det
24	hearty	hearty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 curse	amod
25	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Lepracaun	det
29	Lepracaun	Lepracaun	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 time	acl:relcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 turn	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 turn	det
36	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 turn	amod
37	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thought	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 served	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 served	aux
40	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 turn	acl:relcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 served	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Tom		again	with Tom's spade on Tom's shoulder; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Tom				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	many	the Lepracaun	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lepracaun=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	Tom	every time not said here		of the neat turn	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme
5	serve	past · perfect	Tom	curse			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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