More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 54

The other won't agree thereto, So there they fall to strife; With one another they did fight About the children's life; And he that was of mildest mood Did slay the other there, Within an unfrequented wood; The babes did quake for fear!

Who acts: other, Children, one, wretch, babes · What happens: not agree, fall, fight, be, slay, do · To what, where: mildest mood, other, quake

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 (other, Children, one, wretch), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 other	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 agree	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 agree	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 agree	advmod
5	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	thereto	thereto	ADV	_	5 agree	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fall	punct
8	So	so	ADV	_	11 fall	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 fall	expl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fall	nsubj
11	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 agree	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 strife	case
13	strife	strife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fall	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fight	punct
15	With	with	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 fight	nsubj
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 one	fixed
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fight	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fight	aux
20	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 agree	conj
21	About	about	ADP	_	25 life	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 life	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 children	case
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fight	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 slay	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	35 slay	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 slay	nsubj
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 mood	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mood	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 mildest	case
32	mildest	mild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 mood	amod
33	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 he	acl:relcl
34	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 slay	aux
35	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 agree	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 other	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 slay	obj
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 slay	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wood	punct
40	Within	within	ADP	_	43 wood	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 wood	det
42	unfrequented	unfrequented	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 wood	amod
43	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 slay	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 did	punct
45	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 babes	det
46	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 did	nsubj
47	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 agree	parataxis
48	quake	quake	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 did	obj
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 fear	case
50	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 did	obl
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 agree	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not agree speech: agree	future	the other			thereto property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	present	Children = child		there	to strife	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to strife=Theme
3	fight	past · do-support	one			about the children's life	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about life=Theme
4	is a	past		mildest mood			tree rules
5	slay	past · do-support	wretch	the other	there	within a unfrequented wood	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient
6	do	past	the babes	quake		for fear	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quake=Eventuality

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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