More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 33

There were none too old and none too young, none too big and none too little to crowd at the Piper's heels and with eager feet and upturned noses to patter after him as he paced the streets.

Who acts: none, upshot · What happens: be, crowd, upturn, patter, pace · To what, where: heels, noses, streets

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 (none, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 were	nsubj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 none	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 young	cc
7	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 young	nsubj
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 young	advmod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 old	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 none	punct
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 none	conj
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 big	advmod
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 none	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 little	cc
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 little	nsubj
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 little	advmod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 big	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 crowd	mark
19	crowd	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 little	csubj
20	at	at	ADP	_	24 heels	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Piper	det
22	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 heels	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Piper	case
24	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 crowd	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 feet	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feet	amod
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heels	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 upturned	cc
30	upturned	upturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
31	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 upturned	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 patter	mark
33	patter	patter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 upturned	xcomp
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 patter	obl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 paced	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 paced	nsubj
38	paced	pace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 patter	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 streets	det
40	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 paced	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	none		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crowd	to-infinitive			the Piper's heels and eager feet		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at heel=Destination
3	upturn	past	none not said here	noses			tree rules
4	patter	to-infinitive	none not said here			after upshot	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pace	past	upshot	the streets			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location street=Theme

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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