More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 55

And as he paced down the streets the elders mocked, but from school-room and play-room, from nursery and workshop, not a child but ran out with eager glee and shout following gaily at the Piper's call.

Who acts: townsfolk, elders, Piper · What happens: pace down, mock, run out, shout, follow, call · To what, where: streets, call · Speech: someone speaks here

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, elders, Piper), 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	_	10 mocked	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	10 mocked	advcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 paced	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 streets	det
7	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paced	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 elders	det
9	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mocked	nsubj
10	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 room	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 room	cc
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 room	case
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 school	punct
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mocked	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 room	cc
18	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nursery	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 nursery	case
23	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 workshop	cc
25	workshop	workshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 child	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 child	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 room	conj
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 ran	cc
31	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mocked	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 ran	compound:prt
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 glee	case
34	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 glee	amod
35	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ran	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 shout	cc
37	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mocked	conj
38	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 shout	obj
39	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	38 following	advmod
40	at	at	ADP	_	44 call	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Piper	det
42	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 call	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 Piper	case
44	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 following	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 mocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pace down	past	townsfolk	the streets			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location street=Theme
2	mock	past	the elders				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	run out	past	the elders not said here			with eager glee	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with glee=Material
4	shout speech: express	present	the elders not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	follow	gerund			the Piper's call	gaily property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at call=Location
6	call		the Piper				nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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/pg14241/15/55/