More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 38

And now that he was at the water's edge he stepped into a boat, and not a rat, as he shoved off into deep water, piping shrilly all the while, but followed him, plashing, paddling, and wagging their tails with delight.

Who acts: Nor · What happens: be, step, shove off, pipe, follow, plash · To what, where: edge, rat, boat, deep water, Nor, tails

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 stepped	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stepped	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 edge	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 edge	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 edge	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 water	case
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stepped	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stepped	nsubj
12	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 boat	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boat	det
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stepped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rat	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 rat	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rat	det
20	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stepped	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shoved	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 shoved	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shoved	nsubj
24	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stepped	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 shoved	compound:prt
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shoved	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 piping	punct
30	piping	pipe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 shoved	advcl
31	shrilly	shrilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 piping	xcomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 while	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 while	det
34	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 piping	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 followed	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 followed	cc
37	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stepped	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 followed	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 plashing	punct
40	plashing	plash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 followed	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 paddling	punct
42	paddling	paddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 plashing	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wagging	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wagging	cc
45	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 plashing	conj
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 tails	nmod:poss
47	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 wagging	obj
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 delight	case
49	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wagging	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nor		the water's edge			tree rules
2	step	past	Nor	a rat	a boat	now		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
3	shove off	past	Nor		deep water			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent into water=Trajectory
4	pipe	gerund	Nor not said here			while	shrilly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	follow	past	Nor not said here	Nor				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	plash	gerund	Nor not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	paddle	gerund	Nor not said here					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	wag	gerund	Nor not said here	rats's tails			with delight	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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