More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 54
With that he laid his pipe to his lips afresh, but now there came forth no shrill notes, as it were, of scraping and gnawing, and squeaking and scurrying, but the tune was joyous and resonant, full of happy laughter and merry play.
Who acts: townsfolk, note, tune · What happens: lay, come, scrape, gnaw, squeak, scurry · To what, where: pipe, shrill notes
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 (townsfolk, note, tune), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 laid | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 lips | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lips | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obl |
| 10 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 laid | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 now | fixed |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | conj |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 notes | det |
| 18 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 notes | amod |
| 19 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 scraping | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 scraping | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 scraping | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 scraping | aux |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 scraping | punct |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 scraping | mark |
| 26 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gnawing | cc |
| 28 | gnawing | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 scraping | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 squeaking | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 squeaking | cc |
| 31 | squeaking | squeak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 scraping | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 scurrying | cc |
| 33 | scurrying | scurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 squeaking | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 joyous | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 joyous | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tune | det |
| 37 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 joyous | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 joyous | cop |
| 39 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 laid | parataxis |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 resonant | cc |
| 41 | resonant | resonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 joyous | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 full | punct |
| 43 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 joyous | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 laughter | case |
| 45 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 laughter | amod |
| 46 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 full | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 play | cc |
| 48 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 play | amod |
| 49 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 laughter | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | townsfolk | townsfolk's pipe | with that; to townsfolk's lips; afresh property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Result | |||
| 2 | come | past | townsfolk not said here | no shrill notes | now | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme | ||
| 3 | scrape | past · progressive | note | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP.instrument V ADVP»: agent=Instrument | |||||
| 4 | gnaw | gerund | note not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | squeak | gerund | note not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | scurry | gerund | note not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | the tune | joyous property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | the tune not said here | of happy laughter and merry play | 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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