English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 38

And Childe Rowland was just going on, when he remembered what he had to do; so he out with the good brand, that never struck in vain, and off went the hen-wife's head.

Who acts: Childe · What happens: go on, remember, have, do, not strike, go · To what, where: door, good brand, vain, head

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe), 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	_	6 going	cc
2	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
3	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Childe	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remembered	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 remembered	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remembered	nsubj
11	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	conj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 remembered	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 he	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 he	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remembered	obl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 he	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 brand	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 brand	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 brand	amod
24	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 he	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 struck	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 struck	obj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 struck	advmod
28	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brand	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 vain	case
30	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 struck	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
33	off	off	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 struck	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wife	det
36	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wife	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 hen	punct
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 head	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 wife	case
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	Childe				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remember	past	Childe	door			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	have	past	Childe				tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	Childe not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not strike	past		the good brand	vain		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
6	go	past		the hen wife's head		off property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme

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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