More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 93

And the worse his luck, the worse grew his language, till the passers-by were horrified at his words as they went to listen to the Mass-priest.

Who acts: worse, words, fishing · What happens: grow, horrify, go, listen, word · To what, where: language, words

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 (worse, words, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 worse	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 worse	det
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 luck	nmod:poss
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worse	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 worse	det
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worse	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 language	nmod:poss
11	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 passers	punct
13	till	till	ADP	_	15 passers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 passers	det
15	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	obl
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 passers	punct
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 horrified	mark
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 horrified	aux:pass
19	horrified	horrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 grew	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 words	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 words	nmod:poss
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 horrified	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 went	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 horrified	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 listen	mark
27	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 priest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 priest	det
30	Mass	Mass	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 priest	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Mass	punct
32	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 listen	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the worse	fishing's language		till the passers		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location language=Theme
2	horrify	past · passive	the worse not said here		fishing's words			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	go	past	words = word					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	listen	to-infinitive	words = word not said here				to the Mass priest	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to priest=Theme
5	word		fishing					nom word «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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