More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 77
Then it came over the Moon, she would main like to go with him.
Who acts: Moon, light · What happens: come, like, go · To what, where: Moon
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, light), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 Moon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Moon | det |
| 6 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 like | aux |
| 10 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 like | amod |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 like | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Moon | the Moon | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over moon=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | like | would | light | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | light not said here | with thing | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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