More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 52

And again on the morrow he stood and he gazed--he paced afresh the length of London Bridge, but naught did he see and naught did he hear.

Who acts: salmon, naught · What happens: stand, gaze, pace, afresh, see, hear · To what, where: morrow, length

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, naught), 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	_	7 stood	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	5 morrow	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 morrow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morrow	det
5	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gazed	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gazed	nsubj
10	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 paced	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 paced	nsubj
13	paced	pace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
14	afresh	afresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 paced	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 length	det
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 afresh	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Bridge	case
18	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Bridge	compound
19	Bridge	Bridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 length	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
22	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 see	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stood	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hear	cc
27	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 hear	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hear	aux
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hear	nsubj
30	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 see	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	salmon		the morrow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on morrow=Location
2	gaze	past	salmon			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	pace	past	salmon			tree rules
4	afresh	infinitive	salmon not said here	the length of London Bridge		tree rules
5	see	past · do-support	naught			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear	past · do-support	naught			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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