More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 84

And so it went on day after day, all the work done by Yallery Brown, and better done, too, than he could have done it himself.

Who acts: work, Tom · What happens: go, do · To what, where: work

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 (work, Tom), 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	_	4 went	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 work	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 work	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 work	det
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 work	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Brown	case
15	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Brown	compound
16	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 done	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 done	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 done	cc
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 done	amod
20	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 too	punct
22	too	too	ADV	_	20 done	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 done	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 done	aux
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 went	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	obj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 done	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	work	all work	day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	participle		all work not said here		by Yallery Brown	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	could · perfect	Tom	work		Tom obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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