More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 54
But when she didn't shine, out came the Things that dwelt in the darkness and went about seeking to do evil and harm; Bogles and Crawling Horrors, all came out when the Moon didn't shine.
Who acts: goodwife, Things, Moon · What happens: not shine, come, dwell, go, seek, do · To what, where: Things, darkness, evil
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 (goodwife, Things, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 shine | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shine | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shine | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 shine | advmod |
| 6 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shine | punct |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Things | det |
| 11 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 dwelt | nsubj |
| 13 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 darkness | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 darkness | det |
| 16 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dwelt | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dwelt | conj |
| 19 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 20 seeking | mark |
| 20 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 went | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seeking | xcomp |
| 23 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 harm | cc |
| 25 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 evil | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 Bogles | punct |
| 27 | Bogles | bogle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Horrors | cc |
| 29 | Crawling | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 Horrors | amod |
| 30 | Horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Bogles | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 came | advmod |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 33 came | advmod |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 shine | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Moon | det |
| 37 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 shine | nsubj |
| 38 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 shine | aux |
| 39 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 shine | advmod |
| 40 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 came | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shine | past · do-support | goodwife | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the Things | Bogles and Crawling Horrors obl; out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past | the Things | the darkness | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Location | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the Things not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | seek | gerund | the Things not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Things not said here | evil and harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | crawl | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | come out | past | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | not shine | past · do-support | the Moon | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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