More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 42

And many a tale she could tell of the "good folk" calling to each other in the oak-trees, and the twinkling lights hopping on to the very window sill, on dark nights; but in spite of the loneliness, she lived on from year to year in the little house, perhaps because she was never asked to pay any rent for it.

Who acts: many tale, good folk, twinkling lights, tale, house · What happens: tell, call, hop on, live on, not ask, pay · To what, where: each, oak trees, window sill, spite, house, rent · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (many tale, good folk, twinkling lights, tale), 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	_	7 tell	cc
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tale	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tale	det
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 folk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 folk	det
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 folk	punct
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 folk	amod
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 folk	punct
14	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 folk	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 calling	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 trees	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
20	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trees	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 oak	punct
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 calling	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hopping	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hopping	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lights	det
26	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lights	compound
27	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hopping	nsubj
28	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tell	advcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	28 hopping	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	34 sill	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sill	det
32	very	very	ADV	_	34 sill	advmod
33	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sill	compound
34	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hopping	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 nights	punct
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 nights	case
37	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nights	amod
38	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hopping	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 lived	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 lived	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 spite	case
42	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lived	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 loneliness	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 loneliness	det
45	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spite	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spite	punct
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 lived	nsubj
48	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	advcl
49	on	on	ADV	_	48 lived	advmod
50	from	from	ADP	_	51 year	case
51	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lived	obl
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 year	case
53	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 year	nmod
54	in	in	ADP	_	57 house	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 house	det
56	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 house	amod
57	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lived	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 perhaps	punct
59	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
60	because	because	SCONJ	_	64 asked	mark
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 asked	nsubj
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 asked	aux:pass
63	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	64 asked	advmod
64	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 perhaps	advcl
65	to	to	PART	_	66 pay	mark
66	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 asked	xcomp
67	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	68 rent	det
68	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 pay	obj
69	for	for	ADP	_	70 it	case
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 pay	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	a many tale					of the good folk; perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	gerund	the good folk not said here		each	the oak trees			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	hop on	gerund	the twinkling lights			the window sill	night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sill=Destination
4	live on	past	tale			spite of the loneliness	year	in the little house	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
5	not ask speech: ask	past · passive		house					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	house not said here	any rent				for rent	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent rent=Asset for it=Theme
7	spite			the loneliness					nom spite «feeling 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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