More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 46

But one night, just at the fore-end of winter, the widow could not make up her mind to go off to bed, and leave him playing by the fireside; for the wind was tugging at the door, and rattling the window-panes, and well she knew that on such a night, fairies and such like were bound to be out and about, and bent on mischief.

Who acts: widow, wind · What happens: not make up, go off, leave, play, tug, rattle · To what, where: mind, fire, window panes, mischief

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 (widow, wind), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 night	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 end	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	10 end	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
8	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 fore	punct
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 winter	case
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 widow	det
15	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 make	advmod
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 make	compound:prt
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mind	nmod:poss
21	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	advcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 go	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 bed	case
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 leave	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 leave	cc
29	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 leave	obj
31	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 leave	advcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 fireside	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fireside	det
34	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 playing	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 tugging	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 tugging	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wind	det
38	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tugging	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 tugging	aux
40	tugging	tug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 make	advcl
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 door	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 door	det
43	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tugging	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 rattling	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 rattling	cc
46	rattling	rattle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 tugging	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 panes	det
48	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 panes	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 window	punct
50	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 rattling	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 knew	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 knew	cc
53	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 knew	advmod
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 knew	nsubj
55	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 make	parataxis
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 night	mark
57	on	on	ADP	_	60 night	case
58	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	60 night	det:predet
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 night	det
60	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 knew	obl:unmarked
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 fairies	punct
62	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 night	conj
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 bound	cc
64	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	67 bound	case
65	like	like	ADP	_	64 such	fixed
66	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 bound	cop
67	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 night	conj
68	to	to	PART	_	70 out	mark
69	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	70 out	cop
70	out	out	ADV	_	67 bound	ccomp
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 about	cc
72	about	about	ADV	_	70 out	conj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 bent	punct
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 bent	cc
75	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 knew	conj
76	on	on	ADP	_	77 mischief	case
77	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 bent	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make up	could	the widow	widow's mind		night		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
2	go off	to-infinitive	the widow not said here				to bed	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	leave	infinitive	the widow not said here	fire				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	play	gerund	the widow not said here				by the fireside	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tug	past · progressive	the wind				at the door	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at door=Theme
6	rattle	gerund	the wind not said here	the window panes				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pane=Theme
7	know	past	wind			night	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	wind not said here				bound property	tree rules
9	is	to-infinitive	wind not said here				out property	tree rules
10	bend	participle	wind not said here		mischief			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mischief=Location
11	mind		widow					nom mind «cognition 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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