More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 8

They'd gnaw a hole in the top of the tun, and down would go one master rat's tail, and when he brought it up round would crowd all the friends and cousins, and each would have a suck at the tail.

Who acts: mead, place, each · What happens: gnaw, go, bring up, crowd, have · To what, where: hole, top, tail, friends, suck

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 (mead, place, each), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gnaw	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 gnaw	aux
3	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gnaw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tun	det
11	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
14	down	down	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 gnaw	parataxis
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 rat	nummod
18	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rat	compound
19	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tail	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 rat	case
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 brought	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 brought	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	nsubj
26	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 crowd	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 brought	compound:prt
29	round	round	ADV	_	26 brought	advmod
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 crowd	aux
31	crowd	crowd	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 friends	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 friends	det
34	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 crowd	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cousins	cc
36	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 friends	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 have	cc
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 have	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 have	aux
41	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gnaw	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 suck	det
43	suck	suck	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 have	obj
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 tail	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tail	det
46	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 have	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gnaw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gnaw	would	mead	a hole		the top of the tun		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	go	would		one master rat's tail			down property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme
3	bring up	past	place	tail			round property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	crowd	would			all friends and cousins			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme friend=Destination
5	have	would	each	a suck		the tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suck=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.

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