More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 89

And the lads saw Yallery Brown flitting about o' nights, and they saw the things working without hands o' days, and they saw that Tom's work was done for him, and theirs undone for them; and naturally they begun to look shy on him, and they wouldn't speak or come nigh him, and they carried tales to the master and so things went from bad to worse.

Who acts: lads, Yallery Brown, horses, things, Tom · What happens: see, flit, work, do, undo, begun · To what, where: Yallery Brown, things, work, Tom, tales, master · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lads, Yallery Brown, horses, things), 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 saw	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lads	det
3	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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	flitting	flit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 o	case
9	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nights	compound
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 o	punct
11	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flitting	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 things	det
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saw	obj
18	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 things	acl
19	without	without	ADP	_	20 hands	case
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 working	obl
21	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	23 days	case
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 days	punct
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 working	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saw	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 done	mark
29	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 work	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Tom	case
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 done	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux:pass
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 saw	ccomp
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 done	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 undone	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 undone	cc
38	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 undone	nsubj
39	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	conj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 undone	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 begun	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 begun	cc
44	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	46 begun	advmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 begun	nsubj
46	begun	begun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
47	to	to	PART	_	48 look	mark
48	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 begun	xcomp
49	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 look	xcomp
50	on	on	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 look	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 speak	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 speak	cc
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 speak	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 speak	aux
56	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 speak	advmod
57	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 begun	parataxis
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 come	cc
59	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 speak	conj
60	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	59 come	advmod
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 come	obj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 carried	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 carried	cc
64	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 carried	nsubj
65	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
66	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 carried	obj
67	to	to	ADP	_	69 master	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 master	det
69	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 carried	obl
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 went	cc
71	so	so	ADV	_	73 went	advmod
72	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 went	nsubj
73	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 carried	conj
74	from	from	ADP	_	75 bad	case
75	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 went	obl
76	to	to	ADP	_	77 worse	case
77	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	73 went	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the lads	Yallery Brown				tree rules
2	flit	gerund	Yallery Brown not said here			night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	horses = horse	the things				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	work	gerund	the things not said here			day	without hands	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	past	horses = horse					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	past · passive		Tom's work			for Tom	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	undo	participle	horses = horse				for things = thing	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	begun	present	horses = horse				naturally property	tree rules
9	look	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here				on Tom; shy property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme
10	not speak speech: other	would	horses = horse					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	come	infinitive	horses = horse not said here	Tom			nigh property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
12	carry	past	horses = horse	tales	the master			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tale=Theme to master=Destination
13	go	past	things		bad		to worse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bad=Initial_Location to bad=Destination
14	work		Tom					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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