English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 29

In vain he cried; the evil spirit would not be dismissed, and to this day he would have been pouring water, and would have drowned all Yorkshire.

Who acts: boy · What happens: cry, not dismiss, pour, drown · To what, where: vain, evil spirit, Yorkshire

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 dismissed	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spirit	det
7	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spirit	amod
8	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dismissed	nsubj:pass
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dismissed	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 dismissed	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 dismissed	aux:pass
12	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cried	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 water	cc
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pouring	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pouring	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pouring	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 pouring	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 pouring	aux
22	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 water	amod
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dismissed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drowned	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drowned	cc
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 drowned	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 drowned	aux
28	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cried	conj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 Yorkshire	det
30	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 drowned	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	boy		vain			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=Location
2	not dismiss	would · passive		the evil spirit			pouring water obl	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	pour	would · perfect · progressive	boy			day		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	drown	would · perfect	boy not said here	all Yorkshire				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yorkshire=Patient

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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