More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 61

The Moon drew her cloak faster about and trembled, but she wouldn't go back without seeing all there was to be seen; so on she went, stepping as light as the wind in summer from tuft to tuft between the greedy gurgling water holes.

Who acts: Moon, goodwife · What happens: draw, tremble, not go back, see, be, go · To what, where: cloak, tuft

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cloak	nmod:poss
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 about	advmod
7	about	about	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 trembled	cc
9	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 go	advmod
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trembled	ccomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	without	without	SCONJ	_	18 seeing	mark
18	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 go	advcl
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 was	advmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seeing	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	24 seen	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	aux:pass
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 was	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
27	on	on	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stepping	punct
31	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 went	advcl
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 light	advmod
33	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stepping	xcomp
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 wind	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wind	det
36	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 light	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 summer	case
38	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stepping	obl
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 tuft	case
40	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stepping	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 tuft	mark
42	tuft	tuft	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 stepping	advcl
43	between	between	ADP	_	48 holes	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 holes	det
45	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 holes	amod
46	gurgling	gurgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 water	compound
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 holes	compound
48	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 tuft	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the Moon	goodwife's cloak			about property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme
2	tremble	past	the Moon not said here					tree rules
3	not go back	would	goodwife					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	see	gerund	goodwife not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	be	past	goodwife not said here		there		all property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive · passive	goodwife not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
7	go	past	goodwife					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	step	gerund	goodwife not said here		tuft	summer	light property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tuft=Trajectory
9	tuft	to-infinitive	goodwife not said here				between the greedy water holes	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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