More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 20
The live-long night the damsel sobbed and sang:
What happens: sob, sing · To what, where: live long night
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 5 night | det |
| 2 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sobbed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 damsel | det |
| 7 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sobbed | nsubj |
| 8 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sobbed | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | participle · passive | the live long night | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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