More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 96
And there lay the poor Moon, dead and buried in the bog, till some one would set her loose; and who'd know where to look for her.
Who acts: one · What happens: lie, bury, set, know, look · To what, where: poor Moon, bog, loose · 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 (one), 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 lay | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | expl |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Moon | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Moon | amod |
| 6 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dead | punct |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Moon | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 buried | cc |
| 10 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dead | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bog | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bog | det |
| 13 | bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 set | mark |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 set | aux |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 loose | nmod:poss |
| 21 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 set | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 know | cc |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 know | nsubj |
| 25 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | conj |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 look | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 look | mark |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 know | ccomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 look | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the poor Moon | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bury | participle | the bog | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bog=Destination | |||||
| 3 | set | would | some one | Ho's loose | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient loose=Result | ||||
| 4 | know | would | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | for Ho | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=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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