More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 101

Before the days of William the Conqueror there dwelt a man in the marsh of the Isle of Ely whose name was Thomas Hickathrift, a poor day labourer, but so stout that he could do two days' work in one.

Who acts: name, man, Thomas, two days · What happens: dwell, be, do, name, work · To what, where: man, marsh, Thomas, work

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, man, Thomas, two days), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dwelt	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 William	case
5	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Conqueror	det
7	Conqueror	Conqueror	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 William	appos
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 dwelt	advmod
9	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dwelt	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 marsh	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 marsh	det
14	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Isle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Isle	det
17	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 marsh	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Ely	case
19	Ely	Ely	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Isle	nmod
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 name	nmod:poss
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Thomas	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Thomas	cop
23	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 marsh	parataxis
24	Hickathrift	Hickathrift	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Thomas	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 labourer	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 labourer	det
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 labourer	amod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 labourer	compound
29	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Thomas	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stout	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 stout	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 stout	advmod
33	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dwelt	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 do	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 do	aux
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stout	ccomp
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 days	nummod
39	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 work	nmod:poss
40	'	's	PART	_	39 days	case
41	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 do	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 one	case
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 do	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		a man	the marsh of the Isle of Ely; there	day		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	is a	past	Thomas and a poor day labourer's name	Thomas and a poor day labourer				tree rules
3	do	could	man	two days's work			in one	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	name		Thomas and a poor day labourer					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	work		two days					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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