More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 103

So they went their ways; and as days went by, and never a Moon came, naturally they talked--my word!

Who acts: folks, Moon, my · What happens: go, go by, not come, talk, word · To what, where: ways, word

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 (folks, Moon, my), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ways	nmod:poss
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 days	case
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	10 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 came	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Moon	det
16	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 talked	punct
19	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	21 talked	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 talked	nsubj
21	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 word	punct
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 word	nmod:poss
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 talked	obj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	folks = folk	folks's ways			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	go by	past	folks = folk not said here		day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not come	past	a Moon				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk	past	folks = folk	my word		naturally property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Patient
5	word		my				nom word «communication 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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