English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 105

They were nine days on their journey, in which they did try to keep the Sunday holy, when one of the little men turned to be the priest, the other the clerk, and third presided at the organ, and the women were the singers, for they had a grand chapel in the castle already.

Who acts: man, one, women · What happens: be, try, keep, turn, preside, have · To what, where: nine days, journey, priest, third, organ, singers

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one, women), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 days	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 days	cop
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 journey	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 journey	nmod:poss
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 try	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 try	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 try	aux
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 days	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 try	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sunday	det
17	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 keep	obj
18	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 keep	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 turned	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 turned	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 men	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 men	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 men	amod
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
26	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 try	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	30 priest	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 priest	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 priest	det
30	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 clerk	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 clerk	amod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 clerk	det
35	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 priest	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 presided	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 presided	cc
38	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 presided	nsubj:pass
39	presided	preside	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 turned	conj
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 organ	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 organ	det
42	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 presided	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 singers	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 singers	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 women	det
46	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 singers	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 singers	cop
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 singers	det
49	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 presided	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 had	punct
51	for	for	ADP	_	53 had	case
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 had	nsubj
53	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 presided	conj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 chapel	det
55	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 chapel	amod
56	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 had	obj
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 castle	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 castle	det
59	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 had	obl
60	already	already	ADV	_	53 had	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	nine days	man's journey			tree rules
2	try	past · do-support	man			in nine days		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			sunday	holy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	one of the little men					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive	one of the little men not said here	the priest				tree rules
6	preside	participle · passive		third	the organ			tree rules
7	is a	past	the women	the singers				tree rules
8	have	past	man	a grand chapel	the castle			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapel=Patient
9	journey		man					nom journey «act 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: «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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