More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 33

"Yes, just like that, till they came and stood right opposite Mr. Fordyce's grave, where I was, when they all stood still and looked straight at me.

Who acts: Cats · What happens: come, stand, look · To what, where: right opposite grave

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	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 came	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 that	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Yes	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stood	cc
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grave	amod
14	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grave	amod
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fordyce	nmod:desc
16	Fordyce	Fordyce	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 grave	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Fordyce	case
18	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 was	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 was	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grave	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 stood	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stood	nsubj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 stood	advmod
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
28	still	still	ADV	_	27 stood	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 looked	cc
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stood	conj
31	straight	straight	ADV	_	33 me	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 looked	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	Cats = cat				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand in a quote	past	Cats = cat not said here	Fordyce Mr.'s right opposite grave			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grave=Stimulus
3	stand in a quote	past	Cats = cat		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look in a quote	past	Cats = cat not said here			at Tom's wife = wife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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