More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 122

Sad and desolate he found his folk: the lands untilled, the farms deserted, half the trees of the park uprooted, for none would stay to tend the nine kye that the monster needed for his food each day.

Who acts: Childe, farms, none, monster · What happens: desolate, find, until, desert, uproot, stay · To what, where: folk, lands, trees, nine kye

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 (Childe, farms, none, monster), 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	Sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 desolate	cc
3	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sad	conj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 desolate	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 folk	nmod:poss
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 lands	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lands	det
10	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 folk	conj
11	untilled	until	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lands	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deserted	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farms	det
14	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deserted	nsubj
15	deserted	desert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lands	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deserted	punct
17	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	19 trees	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deserted	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 park	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 park	det
22	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	nmod
23	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 trees	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stay	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 stay	mark
26	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	28 stay	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 stay	aux
28	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 uprooted	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tend	mark
30	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stay	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 kye	det
32	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 kye	nummod
33	kye	kye	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tend	obj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 needed	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 monster	det
36	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 needed	nsubj
37	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 kye	acl:relcl
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 food	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 food	nmod:poss
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 needed	obl
41	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	42 day	det
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 needed	obl:unmarked
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	desolate	infinitive					tree rules
2	find	past	Childe	Childe's folk and the lands			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Topic
3	until	participle		the lands not said here			tree rules
4	desert	past	the farms	half trees of the park			vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme tree=Source
5	uproot	participle		half trees of the park not said here			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	stay	would	none				tree rules
7	tend	to-infinitive	none not said here	the nine kye			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kye=Theme
8	need	past	the monster	the nine kye not said here	day	for Childe's food	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kye=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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