Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 132

I kept letting them out by the way of one and one, as I flayed the buck, and before the last one was out I had him flayed bag-wise.

Who acts: I, last one, leech · What happens: keep, let out, flay, be, have · To what, where: goats, buck, leech

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, last one, leech), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 letting	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 letting	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 letting	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 way	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flayed	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 flayed	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 flayed	nsubj
16	flayed	flay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 buck	det
18	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flayed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 out	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 out	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 out	cop
26	out	out	ADV	_	28 had	advcl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flayed	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	obj
30	flayed	flay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 had	xcomp
31	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wise	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 bag	punct
33	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 flayed	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	I			tree rules
2	let out	gerund	I not said here	goats = goat	by the way of one	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	flay	past	I	the buck		tree rules
4	is	past	the last one		out property	tree rules
5	have	past	I	leech		tree rules
6	flay	participle	leech not said here		wise property	tree rules

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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