More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 92

And they fought and squabbled what they should do with her, till a pale grey light began to come in the sky; and it drew nigh the dawning.

Who acts: Horrors, pale grey light, Moon · What happens: fight, squabble, do, begin, come, draw · To what, where: sky, dawning

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 (Horrors, pale grey light, Moon), 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	_	3 fought	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fought	nsubj
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 squabbled	cc
5	squabbled	squabble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 squabbled	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 began	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 light	det
15	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
16	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sky	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 drew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drew	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drew	nsubj
27	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fought	conj
28	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	30 dawning	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dawning	det
30	dawning	dawning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drew	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past	Horrors = horror				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	squabble	past	Horrors = horror not said here				tree rules
3	do	should	Horrors = horror			with Ho	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	begin	past	a pale grey light				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	come	to-infinitive	a pale grey light not said here		the sky		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location
6	draw	past	Moon	the dawning			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dawning=Theme

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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