More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 95

And they told two of the Will-o-the-wykes to take turns in watching on the black snag, to see that she lay safe and still, and couldn't get out to spoil their sport.

Who acts: Bogles, Ho · What happens: tell, take, watch, see, lie, not get out · To what, where: two wykes, turns, black snag, sport · 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 (Bogles, 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	_	3 told	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 wykes	nummod
5	of	of	ADP	_	13 wykes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wykes	det
7	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wykes	aux
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 wykes	punct
9	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	13 wykes	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 o	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wykes	det
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 the	punct
13	wykes	wyke	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
16	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 take	obj
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 watching	mark
18	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 take	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 snag	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snag	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 snag	amod
22	snag	snag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 watching	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 lay	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	advcl
29	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lay	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 still	cc
31	still	still	ADV	_	29 safe	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 get	cc
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
35	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 get	advmod
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
37	out	out	ADV	_	36 get	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 spoil	mark
39	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 get	xcomp
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sport	nmod:poss
41	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spoil	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Bogles = bogle		the two wykes			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wyke=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bogles = bogle not said here	turns				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
3	watch	gerund	Bogles = bogle not said here			the black snag		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on snag=Location
4	see	to-infinitive	Bogles = bogle not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	lie	past	Ho				safe property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not get out	could					out property	tree rules
7	spoil	to-infinitive		Bogles's sport				tree rules
8	sport		Bogles = bogle					nom sport «act intransitive»: 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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