More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 54

He was gey, and mis-liking to meddle with the thing, but he couldn't stand the whimpering babby, and he tore like mad at the stone, till he felt it lifting from the mools, and all at once it came with a sough out o' the damp earth and the tangled grass and growing things.

Who acts: tired, all · What happens: be, like, meddle, not stand, tore, feel · To what, where: whimpering babby, babby, mools, things

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 (tired, all), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gey	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gey	cop
3	gey	gey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 liking	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 liking	cc
6	mis	mis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 liking	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 mis	punct
8	liking	like	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gey	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 meddle	mark
10	meddle	meddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 liking	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 thing	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meddle	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stand	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 stand	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stand	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stand	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 stand	advmod
19	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gey	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 babby	det
21	whimpering	whimpering	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 babby	compound
22	babby	babby	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stand	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tore	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tore	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tore	nsubj
26	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stand	parataxis
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 mad	case
28	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tore	appos
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 stone	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stone	det
31	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mad	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 felt	punct
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 felt	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 felt	nsubj
35	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stand	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 felt	obj
37	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 felt	advcl
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 mools	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mools	det
40	mools	mool	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lifting	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 came	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 came	cc
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 came	nsubj
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 it	case
45	once	once	SCONJ	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 all	nmod
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gey	parataxis
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 sough	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 sough	det
50	sough	sough	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	obl
51	out	out	ADP	_	47 came	compound:prt
52	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	56 earth	case
53	'	'	PUNCT	_	56 earth	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 earth	det
55	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 earth	amod
56	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 grass	cc
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 grass	det
59	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 grass	amod
60	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 earth	conj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 growing	cc
62	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 earth	conj
63	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 growing	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	tired			gey property	tree rules
2	like	gerund	tired not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	meddle not said to happen	to-infinitive	tired not said here			with the thing	tree rules
4	not stand	could	tired	the whimpering babby			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer babby=Stimulus
5	tore		tired				tree rules
6	feel	past	tired	babby			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	lift	gerund	tired not said here		the mools		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from mool=Destination
8	come out	past	all			with a sough; of the damp earth and the tangled grass	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
9	grow	gerund	all not said here	things			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=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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