More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 39

On and on he played and played until the tide went down, and each master rat sank deeper and deeper in the slimy ooze of the harbour, until every mother's son of them was dead and smothered.

Who acts: Nor, tide, master rat, son · What happens: play, go down, sink, be, smother

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, tide, master rat, son), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	5 played	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 played	cc
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 played	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 played	cc
7	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	conj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tide	det
10	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 played	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sank	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sank	cc
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 rat	det
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rat	compound
17	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sank	nsubj
18	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	parataxis
19	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 sank	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 deeper	cc
21	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 deeper	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 ooze	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ooze	det
24	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ooze	amod
25	ooze	ooze	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deeper	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 harbour	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 harbour	det
28	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ooze	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dead	punct
30	until	until	SCONJ	_	38 dead	mark
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 mother	det
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 son	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 mother	case
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dead	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 son	nmod
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 dead	cop
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sank	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 smothered	cc
40	smothered	smother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 dead	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	play	past	Nor		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	past	Nor not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go down	past	the tide	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	sink	past	each master rat	deep property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	every mother's son of rats	dead property	tree rules
6	smother	participle	every mother's son of rats not said here		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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