More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 51

They prate and prattle pleasantly, As they ride on the way, To those that should their butchers be And work their lives' decay:

Who acts: Children, those, lives · What happens: prate, prattle, ride, be, decay · To what, where: way

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 (Children, those, lives), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prate	nsubj
2	prate	prate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 prattle	cc
4	prattle	prattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prate	conj
5	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	4 prattle	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ride	punct
7	As	as	SCONJ	_	9 ride	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ride	nsubj
9	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prate	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 work	punct
14	To	to	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 work	nsubj
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 those	obj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 work	aux
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 butchers	nmod:poss
19	butchers	butcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 work	nsubj
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 work	cop
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 work	cc
22	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ride	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lives	nmod:poss
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 decay	nmod:poss
25	'	's	PART	_	24 lives	case
26	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 work	obj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 prate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	prate	present	Children = child			tree rules
2	prattle speech: other	present	Children = child not said here		pleasantly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ride	present	Children = child	the way		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	is	should	those		work property	tree rules
5	decay		Children's lives			nom decay «process 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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