More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 81

They came crowding round her, mocking and snatching and beating; shrieking with rage and spite, and swearing and snarling, for they knew her for their old enemy, that drove them back into the corners, and kept them from working their wicked wills.

Who acts: screech, that · What happens: come, crowd, mock, snatch, beat, shriek · To what, where: light, screech, corners, wicked wills

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 (screech, that), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crowding	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 came	xcomp
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crowding	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mocking	punct
7	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 crowding	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 snatching	cc
9	snatching	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mocking	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beating	cc
11	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mocking	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 shrieking	punct
13	shrieking	shriek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 rage	case
15	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shrieking	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spite	cc
17	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rage	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swearing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 swearing	cc
20	swearing	swear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 shrieking	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 snarling	cc
22	snarling	snarl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 swearing	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 enemy	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 enemy	nmod:poss
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 enemy	amod
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knew	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 drove	punct
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 drove	nsubj
34	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 drove	obj
36	back	back	ADV	_	34 drove	advmod
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 corners	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 corners	det
39	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 drove	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 kept	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 kept	cc
42	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 kept	obj
44	from	from	SCONJ	_	45 working	mark
45	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 kept	advcl
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 wills	nmod:poss
47	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 wills	amod
48	wills	will	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 working	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	screech				tree rules
2	crowd	gerund	screech not said here			round light	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round she=Destination
3	mock	gerund	screech not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	snatch	gerund	screech not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	beat	gerund	screech not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shriek	gerund	screech not said here			with rage and spite	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme
7	swear	gerund	screech not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	snarl	gerund	screech not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	know	past	screech	light		for screech's old enemy	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
10	drive back	past	that	screech	the corners		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into corner=Trajectory
11	keep	past		screech			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
12	work	gerund		screech's wicked wills			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent will=Material
13	will		screech				nom will «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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