More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 90

Not a Mass would he hear in Brugeford Chapel of a Sunday, but a-fishing he would go.

Who acts: Mass, fishing · What happens: hear, go · To what, where: Brugeford Chapel

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 (Mass, fishing), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 Mass	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Mass	det
3	Mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Chapel	case
8	Brugeford	Brugeford	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Chapel	compound
9	Chapel	Chapel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Sunday	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Sunday	det
12	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Chapel	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fishing	det
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 a	punct
17	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hear	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	a Mass			Brugeford Chapel of a Sunday			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	would	a fishing						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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