More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 33

They all went to bed again, and the damsel began, as before, singing:

Who acts: clothes, damsel · What happens: go, begin, sing · To what, where: bed

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 (clothes, damsel), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 damsel	det
10	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 before	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 before	case
14	before	before	ADV	_	11 began	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 singing	punct
16	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 began	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	clothes	bed	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	the damsel			before property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the damsel not said here				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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