More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 1
So came the next night in the darklings, out they went all together, every man with a stone in his mouth, and a hazel-twig in his hand, and feeling, thou may'st reckon, main feared and creepy.
Who acts: darklings, thou · What happens: come, go, feel, may'st, reckon, fear · To what, where: hazel twig, darklings, man, mouth
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darklings, thou), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 darklings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 darklings | det |
| 8 | darklings | darkling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 together | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 stone | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stone | det |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 twig | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 twig | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 twig | det |
| 27 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 twig | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 hazel | punct |
| 29 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hand | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hand | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 twig | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 feeling | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 feeling | cc |
| 35 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 may'st | punct |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 may'st | nsubj |
| 38 | may'st | may'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reckon | obl |
| 39 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 feeling | ccomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 main | punct |
| 41 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 feeling | parataxis |
| 42 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 main | acl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 creepy | cc |
| 44 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 feared | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a hazel twig in man's hand | the darklings | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkling=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | darklings = darkling | every man with a stone | man's mouth | out, together property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mouth=Location | ||
| 3 | feel | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | may'st | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | reckon | infinitive | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | fear | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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