More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 116
Many a long day they went, and in the night Jan used to put the door on the branches of a tree, and they would sleep on it.
Who acts: Many, Jan, door · What happens: go, use, put, sleep · To what, where: door, branches, back
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, Jan, door), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 used | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | obl |
| 12 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 used | nsubj |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 put | mark |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 branches | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branches | det |
| 20 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 branches | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sleep | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sleep | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sleep | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 sleep | aux |
| 28 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sleep | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Many | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Jan | night | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | Jan not said here | the door | the branches of a tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme on branch=Destination | |||
| 4 | sleep | would | door | back | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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