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English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 28

But as they got near the keep, the stepmother felt by her magic power that something was being wrought against her, so she summoned her familiar imps and said: “Childe Wynd is coming over the seas; he must never land.

Who acts: men, stepmother, something, Childe Wynd, Wynd · What happens: get, feel, be, summon, say, come · To what, where: keep, familiar imps, seas · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, stepmother, something, Childe Wynd), 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

ccmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctdetnsubjcasenmod:possamodoblmarknsubjcopcopxcompcaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjconjnmod:possamodobjccconjpunctpunctcompoundnsubjauxccompcasedetoblpunctnsubjauxadvmodadvclpunctrootButCCONJasSCONJtheyPRONgotVERBnearADPtheDETkeepNOUN,PUNCTtheDETstepmotherNOUNfeltVERBbyADPherPRONmagicADJpowerNOUNthatSCONJsomethingPRONwasAUXbeingAUXwroughtADJagainstADPherPRON,PUNCTsoADVshePRONsummonedVERBherPRONfamiliarADJimpsNOUNandCCONJsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTChildePROPNWyndPROPNisAUXcomingVERBoverADPtheDETseasNOUN;PUNCThePRONmustAUXneverADVlandVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_11 feltcc
2asasSCONJ_4 gotmark
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 gotnsubj
4gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 feltadvcl
5nearnearADP_7 keepcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 keepdet
7keepkeepNOUNNumber=Sing4 gotobl
8,,PUNCT_4 gotpunct
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 stepmotherdet
10stepmotherstepmotherNOUNNumber=Sing11 feltnsubj
11feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12bybyADP_15 powercase
13herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 powernmod:poss
14magicmagicADJDegree=Pos15 poweramod
15powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing11 feltobl
16thatthatSCONJ_20 wroughtmark
17somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind20 wroughtnsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 wroughtcop
19beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 wroughtcop
20wroughtwroughtADJDegree=Pos11 feltxcomp
21againstagainstADP_22 hercase
22hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 wroughtobl
23,,PUNCT_26 summonedpunct
24sosoADV_26 summonedadvmod
25sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 summonednsubj
26summonedsummonVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 feltconj
27herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 impsnmod:poss
28familiarfamiliarADJDegree=Pos29 impsamod
29impsimpNOUNNumber=Plur26 summonedobj
30andandCCONJ_31 saidcc
31saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 summonedconj
32::PUNCT_37 comingpunct
33“"PUNCT_37 comingpunct
34ChildeChildePROPNNumber=Sing35 Wyndcompound
35WyndWyndPROPNNumber=Sing37 comingnsubj
36isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin37 comingaux
37comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part31 saidccomp
38overoverADP_40 seascase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 seasdet
40seasseaNOUNNumber=Plur37 comingobl
41;;PUNCT_45 landpunct
42hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 landnsubj
43mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin45 landaux
44neverneverADVPronType=Neg45 landadvmod
45landlandVERBVerbForm=Inf11 feltadvcl
46..PUNCT_11 feltpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastmen = manthe keepvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2feelpastthe stepmotherby stepmother's magic powervn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3ispastsomethingagainst stepmother; wrought propertytree rules
4summonpaststepmotherstepmother's familiar impsvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imp=Recipient
5say speech: assertpaststepmother not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6come in a quotepresent · progressiveChilde Wyndthe seasvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial_Location
7not land in a quotemustWyndvn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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