More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 36
And as he paced along, slowly and gravely, the townsfolk flocked to door and window, and many a blessing they called down upon his head.
Who acts: Nor, townsfolk, door · What happens: pace, flock, call down · To what, where: door, many blessing
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 (Nor, townsfolk, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flocked | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 paced | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paced | nsubj |
| 4 | paced | pace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flocked | advcl |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 paced | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slowly | punct |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 paced | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gravely | cc |
| 9 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 7 slowly | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 paced | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 townsfolk | det |
| 12 | townsfolk | townsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flocked | nsubj |
| 13 | flocked | flock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 door | mark |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flocked | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 window | cc |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 door | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blessing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blessing | cc |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 blessing | amod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 blessing | det |
| 22 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flocked | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 blessing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 called | advmod |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 flocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pace | past | Nor | along, slowly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flock | past | the townsfolk | door and window | a many blessing obl | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 3 | call down speech: assert | past | door | a many blessing not said here | upon Nor's head; down property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient |
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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