More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 18

So at last he had maimed them all, and they all went crying and wailing off, and forgot the ball, but he took it from under the bed, and went to seek his true-love.

Who acts: lad, bogles · What happens: maim, go, cry, wail off, forget, take · To what, where: bogles, last, ball, bed, true love

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, bogles), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 maimed	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maimed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 maimed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 maimed	aux
6	maimed	maim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 maimed	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 maimed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 went	advmod
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 maimed	parataxis
14	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 went	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wailing	cc
16	wailing	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 crying	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 wailing	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 forgot	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 forgot	cc
20	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ball	det
22	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 forgot	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 forgot	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 bed	case
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bed	det
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 seek	mark
36	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 went	xcomp
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 love	nmod:poss
38	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 love	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 true	punct
40	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seek	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 maimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	maim	past · perfect	lad	bogles = bogle	last	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	go	past	bogles = bogle			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cry speech: express	gerund	bogles = bogle not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wail off	gerund	bogles = bogle not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	forget	past	bogles = bogle not said here	the ball		tree rules
6	take	past	lad	ball	the bed	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from bed=Initial_Location
7	go	past	lad not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	seek	to-infinitive	lad not said here	lad's true love		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme
9	love		lad			nom love «feeling 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.

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