More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 72

And at once all evil things fled back into the dark corners, for they cannot abide the light.

Who acts: evil things, marshes · What happens: flee back, not abide · To what, where: dark corners, light

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 (evil things, marshes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 fled	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 fled	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 things	det
5	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fled	nsubj
7	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 fled	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 corners	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corners	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 corners	amod
12	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 abide	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 abide	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 abide	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 abide	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 abide	advmod
18	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fled	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 light	det
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 abide	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee back	past	all evil things			the dark corners			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into corner=Initial_Location
2	not abide	can	marshes = marsh	the light					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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