More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 66

Presently as she stood trembling in the dark, wondering if help would come, she heard something calling in the distance, calling, calling, and then dying away with a sob, till the marshes were full of this pitiful crying sound; then she heard steps floundering along, squishing in the mud and slipping on the tufts, and through the darkness she saw a white face with great feared eyes.

Who acts: goodwife, help, marshes, steps · What happens: stand, tremble, wonder, come, hear, call · To what, where: dark, something, steps, mud, tufts, white face · Speech: someone speaks here

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, help, marshes, steps), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 stood	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stood	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 dark	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dark	det
8	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trembling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wondering	punct
10	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 trembling	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wondering	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 heard	obj
19	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 something	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 distance	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 distance	det
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 calling	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 calling	punct
24	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 heard	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 calling	punct
26	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 calling	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dying	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dying	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 dying	advmod
30	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 calling	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 dying	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 sob	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sob	det
34	sob	sob	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dying	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 full	punct
36	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 full	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 marshes	det
38	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 full	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 full	cop
40	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 heard	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 sound	case
42	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 sound	nsubj
43	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sound	amod
44	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 sound	amod
45	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 full	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 heard	punct
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 heard	advmod
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 heard	nsubj
49	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
50	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 heard	obj
51	floundering	flounder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 steps	acl
52	along	along	ADV	_	51 floundering	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 squishing	punct
54	squishing	squish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 floundering	conj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 mud	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 mud	det
57	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 squishing	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 slipping	cc
59	slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 squishing	conj
60	on	on	ADP	_	62 tufts	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 tufts	det
62	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 slipping	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 saw	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 saw	cc
65	through	through	ADP	_	67 darkness	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 darkness	det
67	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 saw	obl
68	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 saw	nsubj
69	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 heard	conj
70	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 face	det
71	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 face	amod
72	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 saw	obj
73	with	with	ADP	_	76 eyes	case
74	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 eyes	amod
75	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	76 eyes	amod
76	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 saw	obl
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	goodwife				presently property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tremble	gerund	goodwife not said here		the dark			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	goodwife not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come a condition, not said to happen	would	help					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past	goodwife	something				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
6	call	gerund					in the distance	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	call	gerund	goodwife not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	call	gerund	goodwife not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	die away	gerund	goodwife not said here			then	with a sob; away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	is	past	the marshes				of pitiful crying sound; full property	tree rules
11	cry speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	hear	past	goodwife	steps		then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus
13	flounder	gerund	steps not said here				along property	tree rules
14	squish	gerund	steps not said here		the mud			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in mud=Trajectory
15	slip	gerund	steps not said here		the tufts			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
16	see	past	goodwife	a white face	the darkness		with great feared eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
17	fear	participle						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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