More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 104

The young heir of Lambton took up the gruesome thing, and, taking it off his hook, cast it into a well close by, and ever since that day that well has gone by the name of the Worm Well.

Who acts: young heir, taking, day · What happens: take up, take off, cast, go, name · To what, where: gruesome thing, thing, hook, Worm Well

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young heir, taking, day), 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	3 heir	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heir	amod
3	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Lambton	case
5	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heir	nmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cast	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cast	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 and	punct
14	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 cast	csubj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taking	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	14 taking	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hook	nmod:poss
18	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct
20	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cast	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 close	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 close	det
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 close	advmod
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cast	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	25 close	fixed
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 day	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 day	cc
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 day	advmod
30	since	since	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl:unmarked
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 gone	nsubj
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 gone	advmod
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 gone	aux
36	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 day	acl:relcl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 name	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 name	det
39	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gone	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 Well	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Well	det
42	Worm	Worm	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Well	compound
43	Well	Well	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 name	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	the young heir of Lambton	the gruesome thing	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	take off	gerund		thing			tree rules
3	cast	infinitive	taking	hook			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	go	present · perfect	that day			by the name of the Worm Well; well property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by name=Location
5	name			the Worm Well			nom name «communication 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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