More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 117

Henceforth the Worm would cross the river every day, and woe betide the Hall if the trough contained the milk of less than nine kye.

Who acts: Worm, woe, trough · What happens: cross, betide, contain · To what, where: river, Hall, milk

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, woe, trough), 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	Henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	3 Worm	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Worm	det
3	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	aux
5	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 betide	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 betide	cc
12	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 betide	nsubj
13	betide	betide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Hall	det
15	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 betide	obj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 contained	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trough	det
18	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contained	nsubj
19	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 betide	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 milk	det
21	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 contained	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 kye	case
23	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	25 nine	advmod
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 less	fixed
25	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 kye	nummod
26	kye	kye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 milk	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cross	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cross	would	the Worm	the river	day	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
2	betide	present	woe	the Hall		tree rules
3	contain a condition, not said to happen	past	the trough	the milk of nine kye		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot milk=Theme

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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