More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 5

There wasn't a barn or a corn-rick, a store-room or a cupboard, but they ate their way into it.

Who acts: barn · What happens: not be, eat · To what, where: way

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 (barn), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 barn	det
5	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 rick	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rick	det
8	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rick	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 corn	punct
10	rick	rick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barn	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 room	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 room	det
13	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 room	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 store	punct
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barn	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 cupboard	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cupboard	det
18	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 room	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ate	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 ate	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ate	nsubj
22	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 way	nmod:poss
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ate	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ate	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	a barn or a corn rick and a store room or a cupboard			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	barn	barn's way		way			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/15/5/