More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 57

And first he arrived at a farmer's yard, Where the ducks and the geese declared it was hard, That their nerves should be shaken and their rest should be marred By the visits of Mister Fox-o!

Who acts: Waggle, ducks, visits · What happens: arrive, declare, be, shake, mar, visit · To what, where: That, rest, Mister Fox o

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, ducks, visits), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 arrived	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 arrived	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 yard	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yard	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 farmer	case
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declared	punct
11	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 declared	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ducks	det
13	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 declared	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 geese	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 geese	det
16	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ducks	conj
17	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hard	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hard	cop
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 declared	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shaken	punct
22	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 shaken	nsubj:pass
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nerves	nmod:poss
24	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shaken	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 shaken	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 shaken	aux:pass
27	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 arrived	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 marred	cc
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 rest	nmod:poss
30	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 marred	nsubj:pass
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 marred	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 marred	aux:pass
33	marred	mar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 shaken	conj
34	By	by	ADP	_	36 visits	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 visits	det
36	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 marred	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 o	case
38	Mister	Mister	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 o	compound
39	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 o	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Fox	punct
41	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 visits	nmod
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Waggle		at a farmer's yard; first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the ducks and the geese			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the ducks and the geese not said here		hard property	tree rules
4	shake	should · passive		That		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
5	mar	should · passive	the visits of Mister Fox o	ducks's rest		tree rules
6	visit			Mister Fox o		nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient

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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