More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 41
You may fancy the townsfolk had been throwing up their caps and hurrahing and stopping up rat holes and setting the church bells a-ringing.
Who acts: You, townsfolk, hurrahing · What happens: fancy, throw up, hurrah, stop up, set, bell · To what, where: caps, rat holes, church, ringing
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 (You, townsfolk, hurrahing), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fancy | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancy | aux |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 townsfolk | det |
| 5 | townsfolk | townsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throwing | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 throwing | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 throwing | aux |
| 8 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fancy | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 throwing | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 caps | nmod:poss |
| 11 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 throwing | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hurrahing | cc |
| 13 | hurrahing | hurrah | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 bells | csubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopping | cc |
| 15 | stopping | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 hurrahing | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 stopping | compound:prt |
| 17 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 holes | compound |
| 18 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stopping | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 setting | cc |
| 20 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 hurrahing | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 setting | obj |
| 23 | bells | bell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 throwing | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ringing | det |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 a | punct |
| 26 | ringing | ringing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bells | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | may | You | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | throw up | past · perfect · progressive | the townsfolk | rats's caps | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurrah | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | stop up | gerund | rat holes | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination | |||||
| 5 | set | gerund | the church | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result | |||||
| 6 | bell | present | hurrahing | a ringing | tree rules |
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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