English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 12

One night, however, when the servants had stopped up late, they heard a noise in the kitchen, and, peeping in, saw the Brownie swinging to and fro on the Jack chain, and saying:

Who acts: servants, Brownie · What happens: stop up, hear, peep, see, swing, fro · To what, where: servants, noise, kitchen, Brownie, Jack chain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, Brownie), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	10 stopped	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stopped	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 servants	det
8	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stopped	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	aux
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 stopped	compound:prt
12	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 stopped	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 noise	det
17	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 kitchen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kitchen	det
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 peeping	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 peeping	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 peeping	punct
24	peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 heard	conj
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 peeping	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Brownie	det
29	Brownie	Brownie	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
30	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 saw	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 swinging	fixed
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fro	cc
33	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 swinging	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 chain	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chain	det
36	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 chain	compound
37	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fro	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 saying	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 saying	cc
40	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 heard	conj
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop up	past · perfect · passive		the servants		night	however, late property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	hear	past	servants = servant	a noise	the kitchen			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
3	peep	gerund	servants = servant not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	servants = servant not said here	the Brownie				tree rules
5	swing	gerund	the Brownie not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	fro	infinitive	the Brownie not said here		the Jack chain			tree rules
7	say speech: assert	gerund	servants = servant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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