More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 55

By-and-by he fell asleep, and before he knew what he was about--plump--he rolled off into the river with a splash, and scrambled out, dripping like a drowned rat.

Who acts: rt · What happens: fall, know, be, roll off, scramble out, drip · To what, where: river

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 (rt), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 fell	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knew	cc
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 knew	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 knew	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 plump	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 plump	cop
17	about	about	ADV	_	19 plump	advmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 about	punct
19	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 what	acl:relcl
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 rolled	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rolled	nsubj
22	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 rolled	compound:prt
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 river	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 river	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rolled	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 splash	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 splash	det
29	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rolled	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scrambled	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 scrambled	cc
32	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fell	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 scrambled	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dripping	punct
35	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 scrambled	advcl
36	like	like	ADP	_	39 rat	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 rat	det
38	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 rat	amod
39	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dripping	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	rt		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	rt			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	is	past	rt		about, plump property	tree rules
4	roll off	past	rt	the river	with a splash	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into river=Destination
5	scramble out	participle				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drip	gerund			like a drowned rat	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
7	drown	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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