English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 76

Well, every day the flax and the food were brought, and every day that there little black impet used to come mornings and evenings.

What happens: bring, use, come · To what, where: flax, little black impet

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 brought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flax	det
6	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	nsubj:pass
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 food	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flax	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux:pass
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 day	cc
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl:unmarked
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 impet	mark
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 little	advmod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 impet	amod
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 impet	amod
20	impet	impet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 day	appos
21	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 impet	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 used	advcl
24	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 evenings	cc
26	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mornings	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bring	past · passive	the flax and the food	day	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
2	use	participle	little black impet not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	to-infinitive		morning	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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