More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 100

Naturally the poor folk were strangely feared and mazed, and a lot of them went to the Wise Woman who dwelt in the old mill, and asked if so be she could find out where the Moon was gone.

Who acts: lot, Wise Woman, Moon · What happens: fear, maze, go, dwell, ask, be · To what, where: poor folk, old mill

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot, Wise Woman, Moon), 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	Naturally	naturally	ADV	_	4 folk	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 folk	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 folk	amod
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feared	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feared	aux:pass
6	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	7 feared	advmod
7	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mazed	cc
9	mazed	maze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 feared	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lot	det
13	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lot	nmod
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feared	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 Woman	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Woman	det
19	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Woman	amod
20	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 dwelt	nsubj
22	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Woman	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 mill	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mill	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mill	amod
26	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dwelt	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 find	mark
31	so	so	ADV	_	35 find	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 find	cop
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 asked	ccomp
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 find	compound:prt
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 gone	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Moon	det
39	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 gone	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 gone	cop
41	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 find	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fear	past · passive		the poor folk		strangely property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	maze	participle					tree rules
3	go	past	a lot of folks			to the Wise Woman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location
4	dwell	past	the Wise Woman		the old mill		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mill=Location
5	ask speech: ask	past	a lot of folks not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is	could · infinitive	lot			find property	tree rules
7	is	past	the Moon			gone property	tree rules

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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