More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 111

They shine on the grass here o' night.

Who acts: banks · What happens: shine · To what, where: grass

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (banks), 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 shine	nsubj
2	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shine	obl
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 shine	advmod
7	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	9 night	case
8	'	's	PART	_	9 night	punct
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shine	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	banks = bank			the grass; here	night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location

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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