English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 21

Put aside for her seven kine, and each day as the sun goes down, carry every drop of milk they yield to the stone trough at the foot of the Heugh, and the Laidly Worm will trouble the country no longer.

Who acts: you, day, deeds, Laidly Worm · What happens: put, go down, carry, yield, trouble · To what, where: drop, stone trough, country

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, day, deeds, Laidly Worm), 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	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	aside	aside	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 kine	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kine	nmod:poss
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kine	nummod
6	kine	kine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 goes	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 goes	cc
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goes	nsubj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	nmod
14	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 goes	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carry	punct
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Put	advcl
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 drop	det
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carry	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 milk	case
21	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drop	nmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 yield	nsubj
23	yield	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 drop	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 trough	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trough	det
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trough	compound
27	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yield	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 foot	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 foot	det
30	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trough	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Heugh	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Heugh	det
33	Heugh	Heugh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 foot	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 trouble	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 trouble	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Worm	det
37	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Worm	compound
38	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 trouble	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 trouble	aux
40	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 country	det
42	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 trouble	nmod
43	no	no	ADV	_	44 longer	advmod
44	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 trouble	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		for Worm's seven kine; aside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	go down	present	each day as the sun		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	carry	infinitive	you not said here	every drop of milk		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme
4	yield	present	deeds = deed	every drop of milk not said here	to the stone trough at the foot of the Heugh goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent drop=Theme to trough=Goal
5	trouble	future	the Laidly Worm	the country	long property	tree rules

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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