Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 4

She did not much like going and leaving her little ones all alone in a solitary house, especially as she had heard tell of the good folk haunting the neighbourhood.

Who acts: cot, good folk · What happens: go, leave, hear, haunt · To what, where: heard tell, little ones, solitary house, neighbourhood

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cot, good folk), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leaving	cc
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 going	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ones	nmod:poss
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leaving	obj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 alone	advmod
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 leaving	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 house	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 house	det
16	solitary	solitary	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	compound
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
19	especially	especially	ADV	_	23 heard	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 heard	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	aux
23	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tell	amod
24	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 folk	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 folk	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 folk	amod
28	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	nmod
29	haunting	haunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 folk	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 neighbourhood	det
31	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 haunting	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	cot	heard tell of the good folk			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	gerund	cot not said here	cot's little ones	a solitary house	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme in house=Location
3	hear	past · perfect	cot			especially property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	haunt	gerund	the good folk not said here	the neighbourhood			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neighbourhood=Experiencer

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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