More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 73

So Burd Janet promised to do all for Tamlane, and next night at midnight she took her stand by Miles Cross and cast a compass round her with holy water.

Who acts: Burd Janet, Janet · What happens: promise, do, take, cast · To what, where: all, stand, compass

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 (Burd Janet, Janet), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 promised	advmod
2	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Janet	compound
3	Janet	Janet	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 do	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Tamlane	case
9	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl:unmarked
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 midnight	case
15	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 night	nmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stand	nmod:poss
19	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 Cross	case
21	Miles	Miles	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Cross	compound
22	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cast	cc
24	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 compass	det
26	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cast	obj
27	round	round	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cast	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cast	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Burd Janet				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Burd Janet not said here	all		for Tamlane	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	take	past	Janet	Janet's stand	night	by Miles Cross	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Theme
4	cast	past	Burd Janet not said here	a compass		round Janet; with holy water	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compass=Product

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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