More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 30

Out of the hall stepped the Piper, and as he stepped he laid his pipe to his lips and a shrill keen tune sounded through street and house.

Who acts: upshot · What happens: step, lay, sound · To what, where: Piper, hall, pipe, shrill keen tune, street

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 (upshot), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 hall	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 hall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	obl
5	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Piper	det
7	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stepped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stepped	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 stepped	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stepped	nsubj
12	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stepped	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laid	nsubj
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stepped	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pipe	nmod:poss
16	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 lips	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lips	nmod:poss
19	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laid	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tune	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tune	det
22	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tune	amod
23	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tune	amod
24	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lips	conj
25	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tune	acl
26	through	through	ADP	_	27 street	case
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounded	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 house	cc
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 street	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	past		the Piper	the hall		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location piper=Theme
2	step	past	upshot				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay	past	upshot	upshot's pipe		to upshot's lips and a shrill keen tune	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Result
4	sound	participle		a shrill keen tune not said here	street and house		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=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: «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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