More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 82

But it was wonderful how much liquor it took to moisten so much dust; and each time he got to the bottom of the pot he found he was still dry.

Who acts: word, much liquor, dust · What happens: be, take, moisten, get, find · To what, where: much dust, time · 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 (word, much liquor, dust), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 wonderful	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wonderful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonderful	cop
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 liquor	amod
7	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonderful	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 moisten	mark
11	moisten	moisten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 took	xcomp
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dust	amod
14	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moisten	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obl:unmarked
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 bottom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bottom	det
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 pot	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pot	det
26	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bottom	nmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonderful	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dry	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dry	cop
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 dry	advmod
32	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 found	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wonderful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	word			wonderful property	tree rules
2	take	past	much liquor				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	moisten	to-infinitive	much liquor not said here	much dust			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
4	get	past	dust	each time not said here		to the bottom of the pot	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus
5	find	past	dust		time		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	dust		still	dry property	tree rules

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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