More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 58

Thus wandered these poor innocents, Till death did end their grief; In one another's arms they died, As wanting due relief: No burial this pretty pair From any man receives, Till Robin Redbreast piously Did cover them with leaves.

Who acts: death, arms, burial, Robin · What happens: wander, end, die, want, receive, cover · To what, where: poor innocents, grief, due relief, babes

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 (death, arms, burial, Robin), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 wandered	advmod
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 innocents	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 innocents	amod
5	innocents	innocent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wandered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 end	punct
7	Till	till	SCONJ	_	10 end	mark
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 end	aux
10	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wandered	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grief	nmod:poss
12	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 died	punct
14	In	in	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 died	obl
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 arms	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 another	case
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 died	nsubj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 died	nsubj
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wanting	punct
22	As	as	SCONJ	_	23 wanting	mark
23	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 died	advcl
24	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 relief	amod
25	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wanting	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 receives	punct
27	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 burial	det
28	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 receives	nsubj
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 pair	det
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pair	amod
31	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 receives	nsubj
32	From	from	ADP	_	34 man	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pair	nmod
35	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cover	punct
37	Till	till	SCONJ	_	42 cover	mark
38	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 cover	nsubj
39	Redbreast	Redbreast	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Robin	flat
40	piously	piously	ADV	_	42 cover	advmod
41	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 cover	aux
42	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 receives	parataxis
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 cover	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 leaves	case
45	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 cover	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wander	past		this poor innocents	thus property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme innocent=Trajectory
2	end	past · do-support	death	babes's grief		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality grief=Eventuality
3	die	past	another's arms		in one	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in one=Attribute
4	want	gerund	another's arms not said here	due relief		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot relief=Theme
5	receive	present	no burial			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	cover	past · do-support	Robin	babes = babe	with leaves; piously property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with leaf=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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