More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 57

Presently, when he sat up and looked down at himself, he found that the dust had caked into a sort of skin over his wet clothes till you could not see an inch of them, they were so well covered. "

Who acts: rt, you · What happens: sit up, look down, find, cake, not see, cover · To what, where: dust, sort, inch, clothes, skin · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Presently	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sat	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 looked	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 caked	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dust	det
17	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caked	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 caked	aux
19	caked	cake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 found	ccomp
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 sort	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sort	det
22	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caked	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 skin	case
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sort	nmod
25	over	over	ADP	_	28 clothes	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 clothes	nmod:poss
27	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 clothes	amod
28	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 caked	obl
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 see	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 see	advmod
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 caked	advcl
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 inch	det
35	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 inch	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 covered	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 covered	nsubj:pass
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 covered	aux:pass
41	so	so	ADV	_	43 covered	advmod
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 covered	advmod
43	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sat	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	rt			presently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look down	past	rt not said here			at rt	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at himself=Theme
3	find	past	rt				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	cake	past · perfect · passive		the dust	a sort of skin	over rt's wet clothes	tree rules
5	not see	could	you	a inch of clothes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inch=Stimulus
6	cover	past · passive		clothes		well property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
7	sort			skin			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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