More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 91
And the poor Moon crouched down, and wished she was dead and done with.
Who acts: poor Moon, Ho · What happens: crouch down, wish, be, do · 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 (poor Moon, Ho), 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 | _ | 5 crouched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Moon | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Moon | amod |
| 4 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 crouched | nsubj |
| 5 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 crouched | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crouched | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dead | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | cop |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wished | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 done | cc |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dead | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 done | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crouched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch down | past | the poor Moon | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | the poor Moon not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Ho | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | Ho not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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