English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 2

And as she played and sported she would stop from time to time to listen to the music of the birds.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: play, sport, stop, listen

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	_	4 played	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 played	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sported	cc
6	sported	sport	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stop	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sported	ccomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 time	case
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stop	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 listen	mark
15	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 time	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 music	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 music	det
18	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 listen	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 birds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 birds	det
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 music	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	daughter			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sport	past	daughter not said here			tree rules
3	stop	would	daughter	time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	listen	to-infinitive	daughter not said here		to the music of the birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=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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