More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 108

It sucked the cows' milk, devoured the lambs, worried the cattle, and frightened all the women and girls of the district, and then it would retire for the rest of the night to the hill, still called the Worm Hill, on the north side of the Wear, about a mile and a half from Lambton Hall.

Who acts: Worm · What happens: suck, devour, worry, frighten, retire, call · To what, where: Worm, lambs, cattle, women, north side · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Worm), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sucked	expl
2	sucked	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cows	det
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 milk	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 cows	case
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sucked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 devoured	punct
8	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sucked	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lambs	det
10	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 devoured	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worried	punct
12	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 devoured	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cattle	det
14	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worried	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 frightened	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 frightened	cc
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sucked	parataxis
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 women	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 women	det
20	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 frightened	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 girls	cc
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 women	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 district	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 district	det
25	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 girls	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 retire	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 retire	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 retire	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 retire	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 retire	aux
31	retire	retire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sucked	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 rest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rest	det
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 retire	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 night	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 night	det
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rest	nmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 hill	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hill	det
40	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 retire	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 called	punct
42	still	still	ADV	_	43 called	advmod
43	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 retire	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Hill	det
45	Worm	Worm	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Hill	compound
46	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 called	xcomp
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 side	punct
48	on	on	ADP	_	51 side	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 side	det
50	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 side	amod
51	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 called	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 Wear	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Wear	det
54	Wear	Wear	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 side	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 mile	punct
56	about	about	ADV	_	58 mile	advmod
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 mile	det
58	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 called	parataxis
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 half	cc
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 half	det
61	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	58 mile	conj
62	from	from	ADP	_	64 Hall	case
63	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 Hall	compound
64	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 mile	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	past		Worm				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
2	devour	past		the lambs				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Patient
3	worry	past		the cattle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cattle=Experiencer
4	frighten	past		all women and girls of the district				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer
5	retire	would	Worm			then	for the rest of the night; to the hill	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	call speech: assert	participle			the north side of the Wear	still		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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