More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 32

The laird, he alighted and went into the cottage, where he saw the yarn, and admired it so much he begged to see the spinner.

Who acts: laird · What happens: alight, go, see, admire, beg · To what, where: laird, cottage, yarn, spinner

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 laird	det
2	laird	laird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alighted	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 laird	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alighted	nsubj
5	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alighted	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 cottage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cottage	det
10	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 saw	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cottage	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 yarn	det
16	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 admired	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 admired	cc
19	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 alighted	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 admired	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	24 begged	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 begged	nsubj
24	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 admired	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begged	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spinner	det
28	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 alighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	alight	participle · passive		the laird		tree rules
2	go	past			the cottage	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cottage=Initial_Location
3	see	past	laird	the yarn		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yarn=Stimulus
4	admire	past		yarn		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	beg speech: request	past	laird			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	laird not said here	the spinner		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spinner=Stimulus

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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