More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 55

Well, the Moon heard of this, and being kind and good--as she surely is, shining for us in the night instead of taking her natural rest--she was main troubled. "

Who acts: Moon, goodwife · What happens: hear, be, shine, take · To what, where: natural rest

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 (Moon, goodwife), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Moon	det
4	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kind	cc
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 kind	cop
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heard	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 good	cc
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kind	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 shining	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 is	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 is	nsubj
17	surely	surely	ADV	_	18 is	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 shining	aux
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shining	punct
20	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 kind	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 shining	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 night	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 night	det
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shining	obl
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 taking	mark
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 shining	advcl
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 rest	nmod:poss
30	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rest	amod
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taking	obj
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 troubled	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 troubled	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 troubled	cop
35	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 troubled	amod
36	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heard	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 troubled	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Moon			of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus
2	is	gerund				kind property	tree rules
3	be						tree rules
4	shine	present · progressive			night	for us	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	gerund		goodwife's natural rest			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
6	is	past	goodwife			troubled 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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