More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 23

And the way this was, was that he was only at home at night, and would never have any light in the house.

Who acts: this, way · What happens: be, not have · To what, where: way, home, light, house

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 (this, way), 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	_	20 have	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	nsubj:outer
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 home	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 home	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 home	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 home	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 home	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 home	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 home	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 home	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 home	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 light	det
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this	the way not said here		home	night		tree rules
2	not have	would	the way	any light		the house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient

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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