English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 23
All was done as the warlock advised, the Laidly Worm lived on the milk of the seven kine, and the country was troubled no longer.
Who acts: Laidly Worm, country · What happens: do, advise, live, be · To what, where: All, milk
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 (Laidly Worm, country), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 warlock | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 warlock | det |
| 6 | warlock | warlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | obl |
| 7 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Worm | det |
| 10 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Worm | compound |
| 11 | Worm | Worm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 milk | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 milk | det |
| 15 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kine | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kine | det |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 kine | nummod |
| 19 | kine | kine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 milk | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 troubled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 troubled | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 country | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 troubled | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 troubled | cop |
| 25 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 done | parataxis |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 longer | advmod |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 troubled | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | All | as the warlock | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | participle | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | the Laidly Worm | the milk of the seven kine | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on milk=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the country | long, troubled 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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