More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 4

And they all knelt down in the mud, and said, "Our Lord, first forward, because of the cross, and then backward, to keep off the Bogles; but without speaking out, for they knew that the Evil Things would catch them, if they didn't do as the Wise Woman told them."

Who acts: darklings, Evil Things, Wise Woman · What happens: kneel down, say, keep off, speak out, know, catch · To what, where: mud, Lord, Bogles, darklings · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Evil Things, Wise Woman), 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	_	4 knelt	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knelt	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 knelt	advmod
4	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 knelt	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mud	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mud	det
8	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knelt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knelt	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Lord	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Lord	punct
14	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Lord	nmod:poss
15	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 forward	punct
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 forward	advmod
18	forward	forward	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cross	punct
20	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	23 cross	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 because	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cross	det
23	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 keep	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 keep	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 backward	advmod
27	backward	backward	ADV	_	30 keep	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 keep	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 keep	mark
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knelt	advcl
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 keep	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Bogles	det
33	Bogles	Bogle	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 keep	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 knew	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 knew	cc
36	without	without	SCONJ	_	37 speaking	mark
37	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 knew	advcl
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 speaking	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 speaking	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 knew	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 knew	nsubj
42	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knelt	conj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 catch	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Things	det
45	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Things	compound
46	Things	Thing	PROPN	Number=Plur	48 catch	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 catch	aux
48	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 knew	advcl
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 catch	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 do	punct
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 do	mark
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 do	nsubj
53	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 do	aux
54	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 do	advmod
55	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 catch	conj
56	as	as	SCONJ	_	60 told	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Woman	det
58	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Woman	amod
59	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 told	nsubj
60	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 do	advcl
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 told	iobj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knelt	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 knelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	kneel down	past	darklings = darkling			the mud		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location
2	say speech: assert	past		Our Lord			forward property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	keep off in a quote	to-infinitive	darklings = darkling not said here	the Bogles			backward property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bogle=Theme
4	speak out speech: other in a quote	gerund	darklings = darkling not said here					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know in a quote	past	darklings = darkling					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	catch in a quote	would	the Evil Things	darklings = darkling				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · do-support	darklings = darkling					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the Wise Woman		darklings = darkling			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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