More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 87

At first 't was mighty fine for Tom; he'd nought to do and good pay for it; but by-and-by things began to grow vicey-varsy.

Who acts: t · What happens: be, do, begin, grow · To what, where: vicey varsy

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 (t), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 fine	obl
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct
4	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fine	amod
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Tom	case
9	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fine	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 'd	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 'd	nsubj
12	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	parataxis
13	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 'd	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 'd	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pay	cc
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pay	amod
18	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	28 things	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 by	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 by	cc
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 by	punct
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 things	case
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 began	obl
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 grow	mark
31	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	vicey	vicey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 varsy	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 vicey	punct
34	varsy	varsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grow	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	t		for Tom; fine property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	t not said here		for t	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past			by things	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	grow	to-infinitive		vicey varsy		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location varsy=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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