More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 83

But when he went to the work, there was none to do! all was done already, the horses seen to, the stables cleaned out, everything in its proper place, and he'd nothing to do but sit with his hands in his pockets.

Who acts: Tom, stables · What happens: go, do, see to, clean out, sit · To what, where: work, all, horses, pockets

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 (Tom, stables), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 was	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 work	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 work	det
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 'd	cop
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 was	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 none	acl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 done	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux:pass
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 do	advcl
18	already	already	ADV	_	17 done	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 horses	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horses	det
21	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 done	obl
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 horses	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 seen	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cleaned	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stables	det
26	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cleaned	nsubj
27	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 horses	acl:relcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cleaned	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 everything	punct
30	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 none	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 place	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 place	nmod:poss
33	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 place	amod
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 everything	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 'd	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 'd	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 'd	nsubj
38	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 'd	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 do	mark
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 nothing	acl
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 sit	cc
43	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 do	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 hands	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 hands	nmod:poss
46	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 sit	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 pockets	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 pockets	nmod:poss
49	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 sit	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 'd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Tom		the work		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location
2	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past · passive		all		the horses obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	see to	participle		the horses not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	clean out	past	the stables	the horses not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
6	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sit	infinitive			Tom's pockets	with Tom's hands	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=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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