More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 51

All day long he paced to and fro, but he heard nothing that might yield him comfort.

Who acts: salmon · What happens: pace, fro, hear, yield · To what, where: nothing, comfort, salmon

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 paced	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 paced	nsubj
5	paced	pace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 paced	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fro	cc
8	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 paced	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paced	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 heard	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 yield	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 yield	aux
16	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 nothing	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 yield	obj
18	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yield	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pace	past	salmon			long property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	salmon not said here				tree rules
3	hear	past	salmon	nothing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	yield	might		comfort	salmon		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal comfort=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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