More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 91

And so she grew up, with little to eat or wear, spending her days in the fields and lanes, with only the gooseherd for a companion, who would play to her so merrily on his little pipe, when she was hungry, or cold, or tired, that she forgot all her troubles, and fell to dancing, with his flock of noisy geese for partners.

Who acts: granddaughter, gooseherd · What happens: grow up, eat, wear, spend, play, be · To what, where: fields, granddaughter, little pipe, troubles

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (granddaughter, gooseherd), 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 grew	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grew	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 little	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 little	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 little	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 wear	cc
12	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spending	punct
14	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grew	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 days	nmod:poss
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spending	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 fields	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fields	det
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spending	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lanes	cc
21	lanes	lane	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fields	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gooseherd	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 gooseherd	case
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 gooseherd	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gooseherd	det
26	gooseherd	gooseherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spending	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 companion	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 companion	det
29	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gooseherd	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 play	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 play	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 play	aux
33	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gooseherd	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 play	obl
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 merrily	advmod
37	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	33 play	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 pipe	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 pipe	nmod:poss
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 pipe	amod
41	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 play	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 hungry	punct
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 hungry	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 hungry	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 hungry	cop
46	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 play	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 cold	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 cold	cc
49	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 hungry	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 tired	punct
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 tired	cc
52	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 hungry	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 forgot	punct
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 forgot	mark
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 forgot	nsubj
56	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 play	conj
57	all	all	ADV	_	59 troubles	advmod
58	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 troubles	nmod:poss
59	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 forgot	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 fell	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 fell	cc
62	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
63	to	to	ADP	_	64 dancing	case
64	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fell	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 flock	punct
66	with	with	ADP	_	68 flock	case
67	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 flock	nmod:poss
68	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 fell	obl
69	of	of	ADP	_	71 geese	case
70	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 geese	amod
71	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 flock	nmod
72	for	for	ADP	_	73 partners	case
73	partners	partner	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 geese	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	granddaughter					with little	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	granddaughter not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wear	infinitive	granddaughter not said here						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	spend	gerund	granddaughter not said here			the fields and lanes	day	with the gooseherd for a companion	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	play	would	the gooseherd for a companion		granddaughter	dog's little pipe		merrily property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	granddaughter					hungry property	tree rules
7	be		granddaughter not said here						tree rules
8	be		granddaughter not said here						tree rules
9	forget	past	granddaughter	granddaughter's troubles					tree rules
10	fall	past	granddaughter not said here					to dancing; with dog's flock of noisy geese for partners	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dancing=Theme
11	trouble		granddaughter						nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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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