More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 25

All night she kept sighing and singing as before:

Who acts: hill · What happens: keep, sigh, sing

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: who acts (hill), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 singing	cc
7	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sighing	conj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 before	advmod
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 singing	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	hill	night		tree rules
2	sigh	gerund	hill not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	gerund	hill not said here		before property	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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