More English Fairy Tales, LIII. the Hedley Kow, sentence 10

Then it would become so heavy that she would have to lay her burden down, on which the straw would become 'quick,' rise upright and shuffle away before her, till at last it vanished from her sight with a laugh and shout."

Who acts: story, Kow, straw · What happens: become, have, lay down, rise, shuffle away, vanish · To what, where: burden, upright, sight

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIII. the Hedley Kow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, Kow, straw), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 become	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heavy	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lay	mark
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 burden	nmod:poss
14	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obj
15	down	down	ADV	_	12 lay	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 become	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 become	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 straw	det
20	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 become	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 become	aux
22	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lay	conj
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 quick	punct
24	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 become	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rise	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 rise	punct
27	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 become	parataxis
28	upright	upright	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rise	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shuffle	cc
30	shuffle	shuffle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 rise	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 shuffle	advmod
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shuffle	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 last	punct
35	till	till	ADP	_	37 last	case
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 last	case
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rise	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 vanished	nsubj
39	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 last	acl:relcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 sight	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sight	nmod:poss
42	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 vanished	obl
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 laugh	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 laugh	det
45	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 vanished	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 shout	cc
47	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 rise	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	story			then	heavy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	have	would	Kow					tree rules
3	lay down	to-infinitive	Kow not said here	Kow's burden			down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Result
4	become	would	the straw					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	rise	infinitive		upright				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location upright=Theme
6	shuffle away	infinitive				before Kow	away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Trajectory
7	vanish	past	story		Kow's sight		with a laugh	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location
8	shout speech: express	infinitive						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	burden		Kow					nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
10	sight		Kow					nom sight «cognition 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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