English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 44

Then Childe Wynd kissed it once more; but yet no change came over it.

Who acts: Childe, change · What happens: kiss, come · To what, where: set

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 (Childe, change), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 kissed	advmod
2	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kissed	nsubj
3	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Childe	flat
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kissed	obj
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 kissed	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 change	det
12	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kissed	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	Childe	set			then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
2	come	past	no change			set	yet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over it=Initial_Location

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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