More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 31

So he walked on till he came to the drain near by, with just a pickle of water and a foot of mud in it.

Who acts: kind · What happens: walk on, come · To what, where: drain

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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 walked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 walked	obl
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 drain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drain	det
10	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	near	near	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 near	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pickle	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 pickle	case
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 pickle	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pickle	det
17	pickle	pickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 water	case
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pickle	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 foot	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 foot	det
22	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pickle	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 mud	case
24	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 foot	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mud	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	kind						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	kind			the drain		with a pickle of water and a foot of mud in mud; near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to drain=Initial_Location

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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