More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 22

Why, a small coffin covered with a black velvet pall, and on the pall was a small coronet all of gold, and at every third step they took they cried all together, _Miaou_--"

Who acts: Cats · What happens: cover, be, take, cry · To what, where: small coffin, small coronet, pall, third step

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 (Cats), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coffin	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coffin	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coffin	amod
5	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	appos
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 coffin	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 pall	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pall	det
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pall	amod
10	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pall	compound
11	pall	pall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 coronet	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coronet	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 pall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pall	det
16	pall	pall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coronet	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 coronet	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 coronet	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 coronet	amod
20	coronet	coronet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coffin	appos
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 coronet	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 gold	case
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 all	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cried	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 step	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 step	det
28	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 step	amod
29	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cried	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 step	acl:relcl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cried	nsubj
33	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 all	conj
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 together	advmod
35	together	together	ADV	_	33 cried	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Miaou	punct
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Miaou	punct
38	Miaou	Miaou	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 cried	parataxis
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	38 Miaou	punct
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 cried	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 coronet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a small coffin not said here		with a black velvet pall	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pall=Theme
2	is a	past		a small coronet	the pall		tree rules
3	take	past	Cats = cat	every third step not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	Cats = cat			at every third step; together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at step=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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