More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 41

The house-door opened straight on to the hill-side and all round about were moorlands and huge stones, and swampy hollows; never a house nor a sign of life wherever you might look, for their nearest neighbours were the "ferlies" in the glen below, and the "will-o'-the-wisps" in the long grass along the pathside.

Who acts: house door, house, nearest neighbours · What happens: open, be, look, sign · To what, where: glen, life

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 (house door, house, nearest neighbours), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 house	punct
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 on	advmod
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 opened	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 hill	punct
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 round	cc
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 round	advmod
15	round	round	ADV	_	5 opened	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 moorlands	case
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 moorlands	cop
18	moorlands	moorland	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stones	cc
20	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stones	amod
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 moorlands	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hollows	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hollows	cc
24	swampy	swampy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hollows	amod
25	hollows	hollow	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 moorlands	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 house	punct
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 house	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 look	nsubj
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 sign	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sign	det
32	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 house	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 life	case
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sign	nmod
35	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	38 look	advmod
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 look	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 look	aux
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 opened	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 ferlies	punct
40	for	for	ADP	_	47 ferlies	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 neighbours	nmod:poss
42	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	43 neighbours	amod
43	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 ferlies	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 ferlies	cop
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 ferlies	det
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 ferlies	punct
47	ferlies	ferly	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 look	obl
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 ferlies	punct
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 glen	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 glen	det
51	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ferlies	nmod
52	below	below	ADV	_	51 glen	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 wisps	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 wisps	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 wisps	det
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 o	punct
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 o	aux
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 o	punct
59	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	64 wisps	case
60	'	'	PUNCT	_	59 o	punct
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 o	punct
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 wisps	det
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 the	punct
64	wisps	wisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	parataxis
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	64 wisps	punct
66	in	in	ADP	_	69 grass	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 grass	det
68	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 grass	amod
69	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 wisps	nmod
70	along	along	ADP	_	72 pathside	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 pathside	det
72	pathside	pathside	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 grass	nmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the house door			to the hill side	tree rules
2	is	past				about moorlands and huge stones and swampy hollows	tree rules
3	look	might	a house nor a sign of life			wherever property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	past	hollows's nearest neighbours		the glen	for the ferlies	tree rules
5	sign			life			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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