More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 61
And watch and wait as they might, never did they set their eyes again upon the Piper in his parti-coloured coat.
Who acts: you, elders · What happens: watch, wait, not do, set · To what, where: eyes, coloured coat
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, elders), 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 | _ | 2 watch | cc |
| 2 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wait | cc |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 watch | conj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 might | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 might | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 did | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watch | advcl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 did | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 Piper | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Piper | det |
| 18 | Piper | Piper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 coat | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 coat | nmod:poss |
| 21 | parti | parti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coloured | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 parti | punct |
| 23 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coat | amod |
| 24 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do | past | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | set | past | elders = elder | elders's eyes | throng's coloured coat | again | upon the Piper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon piper=Destination |
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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