More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 6
Night came on and he heard bogles move in the courtyard; so he looked out o' the window, and the yard was full of them.
Who acts: Night, he, bogles, yard · What happens: come on, hear, move, look out, be · To what, where: courtyard · 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 (Night, he, bogles, yard), 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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 heard | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 7 | bogles | bogle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 move | nsubj |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 courtyard | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 courtyard | det |
| 11 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 looked | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 looked | compound:prt |
| 17 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 20 window | case |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 window | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 full | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 yard | det |
| 24 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 full | cop |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 full | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | Night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | he | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | move | present | bogles | the courtyard | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | look out | past | he | of the window | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the yard | of bogles = bogle; full property | tree rules |
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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