Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 195

When he felt this he gave his head a lift, and he struck the other end of the dart on the top of the cave, and it went through to the back of his head.

Who acts: weapon, dart · What happens: feel, give, strike, go through · To what, where: this, head, other end, back

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 (weapon, dart), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 felt	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 felt	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lift	det
10	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 struck	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 struck	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 struck	nsubj
14	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 end	amod
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 dart	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dart	det
20	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 end	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 top	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 top	det
23	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 struck	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 cave	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cave	det
26	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 top	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 struck	conj
31	through	through	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 back	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 back	det
34	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 head	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 back	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	weapon	this			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	give	past	weapon	weapon's head			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent head=Recipient lift=Theme
3	strike	past	weapon	the other end of the dart		on the top of the cave	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent end=Instrument on top=Patient
4	go through	past	dart		the back of weapon's head	through property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to back=Initial_Location

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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