More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 54

The fox went out, one still, clear night, And he prayed the moon to give him light, For he'd a long way to travel that night, Before he got back to his den-o!

Who acts: fox, Waggle · What happens: go out, pray, give, travel, get back · To what, where: one, moon, light, Waggle

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 (fox, Waggle), 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 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 went	obl
7	still	still	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
9	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prayed	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 prayed	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 prayed	nsubj
14	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moon	det
16	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prayed	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 prayed	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 'd	punct
22	For	for	SCONJ	_	24 'd	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 'd	nsubj
24	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 prayed	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 way	det
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 'd	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 travel	mark
29	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 way	acl
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 travel	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 got	punct
33	Before	before	SCONJ	_	35 got	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	nsubj
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 'd	conj
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	41 o	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 o	nmod:poss
39	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 o	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 den	punct
41	o	o	NOUN	_	35 got	obl
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the fox	one		night		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past	Waggle	the moon				tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	Waggle not said here	light	Waggle			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient light=Theme
4	travel	to-infinitive	Waggle not said here			night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get back	past	Waggle				to Waggle's den o result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to o=Result

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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