More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 89

So he turned his back, and sat by his window looking out over the sea, and weeping great tears for his lost daughter, till his white hair and beard grew down over his shoulders and twined round his chair and crept into the chinks of the floor, and his tears, dropping on to the window-ledge, wore a channel through the stone, and ran away in a little river to the great sea.

Who acts: dog, white hair · What happens: turn, sit, look out, weep, lose, grow down · To what, where: back, sea, great tears, shoulders, chair, chinks

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, white hair), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 window	nmod:poss
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 looking	compound:prt
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 weeping	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 weeping	cc
19	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turned	advcl
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tears	amod
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 weeping	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 daughter	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 daughter	nmod:poss
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 daughter	amod
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weeping	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grew	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 grew	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hair	nmod:poss
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hair	amod
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grew	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 beard	cc
32	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hair	conj
33	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 grew	advmod
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 shoulders	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 shoulders	nmod:poss
37	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 grew	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 twined	cc
39	twined	twine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 grew	conj
40	round	round	ADP	_	42 chair	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 chair	nmod:poss
42	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 twined	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 crept	cc
44	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 chinks	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 chinks	det
47	chinks	chink	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 crept	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 floor	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 floor	det
50	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 chinks	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 tears	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 tears	cc
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 tears	nmod:poss
54	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 dropping	punct
56	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turned	advcl
57	on	on	ADP	_	56 dropping	compound:prt
58	to	to	ADP	_	62 ledge	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 ledge	det
60	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 ledge	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 window	punct
62	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 dropping	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 wore	punct
64	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	parataxis
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 channel	det
66	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 wore	obj
67	through	through	ADP	_	69 stone	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 stone	det
69	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 wore	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 ran	punct
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 ran	cc
72	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
73	away	away	ADV	_	72 ran	advmod
74	in	in	ADP	_	77 river	case
75	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 river	det
76	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 river	amod
77	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 ran	obl
78	to	to	ADP	_	81 sea	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 sea	det
80	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 sea	amod
81	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 ran	obl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	dog	dog's back		dog's tears obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
2	sit	past	dog not said here			by dog's window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
3	look out	gerund	dog not said here		the sea		vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	weep	gerund	dog not said here	great tears		for dog's lost daughter	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
5	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	grow down	past	dog's white hair and beard		dog's shoulders	down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location
7	twine	participle	dog's white hair and beard not said here		dog's chair		vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round chair=Destination
8	creep	past	dog not said here		the chinks of the floor		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chink=Destination
9	drop on	gerund	dog not said here		the window ledge		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ledge=Trajectory
10	wear	past		a channel	the stone		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent channel=Source
11	run away	past	dog not said here		a little river	to the great sea result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result

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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