More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 86

For he never saw Yallery Brown in daylight; only in the darklins he saw him hopping about, like a Will-o-th'-wyke without his lanthorn.

Who acts: Tom, darklins · What happens: not see, see, hop about · To what, where: Yallery Brown, daylight, Tom

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, darklins), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 saw	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 saw	advmod
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Brown	compound
6	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 daylight	case
8	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 darklins	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 darklins	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 darklins	det
13	darklins	darklin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saw	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obj
17	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 saw	xcomp
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 hopping	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wyke	punct
20	like	like	SCONJ	_	29 wyke	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wyke	det
22	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 wyke	aux
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 th	punct
24	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	26 th	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 o	punct
26	th	th	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wyke	compound
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 th	punct
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wyke	punct
29	wyke	wyke	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	conj
30	without	without	ADP	_	32 lanthorn	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lanthorn	nmod:poss
32	lanthorn	lanthorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wyke	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see	past	Tom	Yallery Brown	daylight		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brown=Stimulus
2	see	past	the darklins	Tom			tree rules
3	hop about	gerund	Tom not said here			about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/86/