More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 28
Well, much as they feared the rats, they feared parting with their money more, and fain would they have higgled and haggled.
Who acts: rats · What happens: fear, part, higgle, haggle · To what, where: rats
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 (rats), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 feared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 feared | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 feared | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feared | nsubj |
| 6 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rats | det |
| 8 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feared | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feared | conj |
| 12 | parting | part | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 feared | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 money | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 money | nmod:poss |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 parting | obl |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 money | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 higgled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 higgled | cc |
| 19 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 higgled | amod |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 higgled | aux |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 higgled | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 higgled | aux |
| 23 | higgled | higgle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 feared | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 haggled | cc |
| 25 | haggled | haggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 higgled | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | rats = rat | the rats | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | rats = rat | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | part | gerund | rats = rat not said here | with rats's money | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with money=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | higgle | would · perfect | rats = rat | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | haggle | participle | rats = rat not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «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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