More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 55

And there in the hole lay a tiddy thing on its back, blinking up at the moon and at him. '

What happens: lie, blink up · To what, where: tiddy thing, hole, moon

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 lay	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 lay	expl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	tiddy	tiddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blinking	punct
14	blinking	blink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lay	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 blinking	compound:prt
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 moon	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moon	det
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blinking	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 him	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 moon	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a tiddy thing		the hole; there		on hole's back	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme
2	blink up	gerund				the moon			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at moon=Location

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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