English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 78

But while he sang he put the harp he had made that day on a stone in the hall.

Who acts: harper · What happens: sing, put, make · To what, where: harp, stone

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harper), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 put	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	4 sang	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 harp	det
8	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 harp	acl:relcl
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl:unmarked
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 stone	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stone	det
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hall	det
19	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	harper					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	put	past	harper	the harp	a stone		in the hall	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme on stone=Destination
3	make	past · perfect	harper	the harp not said here		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Product

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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