More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 91
And if he did not haul in anything, his curses could be heard by the folk as they went by to Brugeford.
Who acts: fishing, folk, curses · What happens: not haul, hear, go, curse · To what, where: anything, curses
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 (fishing, folk, curses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 haul | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 haul | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 haul | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 haul | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 haul | advmod |
| 6 | haul | haul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 haul | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 curses | nmod:poss |
| 11 | curses | curse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 haul | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 folk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 folk | det |
| 17 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | advcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Brugeford | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Brugeford | case |
| 23 | Brugeford | Brugeford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 haul | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not haul | past · do-support | fishing | anything | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | could · passive | the folk | fishing's curses | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | curses = curse | by Brugeford | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by brugeford=Location | ||||
| 4 | curse | fishing | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=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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