More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 55

The fox when he came to yonder stile, He lifted his lugs and he listened a while! "

Who acts: Waggle, fox · What happens: come, stile, lift, listen · To what, where: lugs

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 (Waggle, fox), 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	11 lifted	nsubj
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fox	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 stile	case
7	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	8 stile	advmod
8	stile	stile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fox	punct
10	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lifted	nsubj
11	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lugs	nmod:poss
13	lugs	lug	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lifted	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 listened	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 listened	nsubj
16	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lifted	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 while	det
18	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 listened	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 lifted	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Waggle				tree rules
2	stile	infinitive	Waggle not said here			yonder property	tree rules
3	lift	past	the fox	Waggle's lugs			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lug=Theme
4	listen	past	Waggle		while		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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