More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 111

But the grisly Worm took no heed, except that it crossed the river and came right up to Lambton Hall itself where the old lord lived on all alone, his only son having gone to the Holy Land.

Who acts: grisly Worm, Worm · What happens: take, cross, come, live, go · To what, where: heed, river, Lambton Hall, old lord, all, Holy Land

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 (grisly Worm, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Worm	det
3	grisly	grisly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Worm	amod
4	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 heed	det
7	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crossed	punct
9	except	except	ADP	_	12 crossed	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 crossed	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crossed	nsubj
12	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crossed	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
17	right	right	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	up	up	ADP	_	21 Hall	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Hall	case
20	Lambton	Lambton	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Hall	compound
21	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 gone	nsubj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 gone	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lord	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lord	amod
26	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gone	nsubj
27	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lord	acl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 lived	obl
30	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 all	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 son	punct
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 son	nmod:poss
33	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 son	amod
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gone	nsubj
35	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 gone	aux
36	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 Hall	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 Land	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Land	det
39	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	40 Land	compound
40	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 gone	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the grisly Worm	no heed			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
2	cross	past	Worm	the river			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
3	come	past	the grisly Worm not said here		Lambton Hall	right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up hall=Initial_Location
4	live	participle		the old lord not said here	all		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on all=Location
5	go	gerund · perfect	Worm		the Holy Land		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location

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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