English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 2

At night, after the servants had gone to bed, it would turn everything topsy-turvy, put sugar in the salt-cellars, pepper into the beer, and was up to all kinds of pranks.

Who acts: servants, bed · What happens: go, turn, put, be · To what, where: bed, everything, sugar, salt cellars

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, bed), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 servants	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servants	det
6	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gone	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turn	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 turn	aux
14	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	conj
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 turn	obj
16	topsy	topsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 turvy	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 topsy	punct
18	turvy	turvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turn	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 turn	conj
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 cellars	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cellars	det
24	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cellars	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 salt	punct
26	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pepper	punct
28	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cellars	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 beer	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beer	det
31	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kinds	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 kinds	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 kinds	cop
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 was	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 kinds	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 kinds	det
38	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gone	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 pranks	case
40	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 kinds	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the servants		bed	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	turn	would	bed	everything				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent everything=Theme turvy=Result
3	put	infinitive	bed not said here	sugar	the salt cellars and pepper		into the beer	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme in cellar=Destination
4	is	past					to all kinds; of pranks	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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