More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 124

Just as he thought to have a bit of sleep, round and over and under him they came, but he never stirred an inch all night.

Who acts: Jack, mountains · What happens: think, have, come, not stir · To what, where: bit, inch

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, mountains), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 thought	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sleep	case
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 round	punct
12	round	round	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 over	cc
14	over	over	ADV	_	12 round	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 round	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stirred	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 stirred	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stirred	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 stirred	advmod
24	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 inch	det
26	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stirred	obj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stirred	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Jack				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	a bit of sleep		round property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
3	come	past	mountains = mountain			under Jack	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under he=Location
4	not stir	past	Jack	a inch	night		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus inch=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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