More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 51

Long ago, in my grandmother's time, the Carland was all in bogs, great pools of black water, and creeping trickles of green water, and squishy mools which squirted when you stepped on them.

Who acts: Carland, squishy mools, you, green water · What happens: be, creep, squirt, step, trickle · To what, where: bogs

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carland, squishy mools, you, green water), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ago	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 time	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grandmother	nmod:poss
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 grandmother	case
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ago	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 time	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Carland	det
11	Carland	Carland	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bogs	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bogs	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	15 bogs	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 bogs	case
15	bogs	bog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 time	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pools	punct
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pools	amod
18	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bogs	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 water	amod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pools	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 trickles	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 trickles	cc
24	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 trickles	amod
25	trickles	trickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 water	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trickles	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mools	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mools	cc
31	squishy	squishy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mools	amod
32	mools	mool	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bogs	conj
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 squirted	nsubj
34	squirted	squirt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 mools	acl:relcl
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 stepped	advmod
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 stepped	nsubj
37	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 squirted	advcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stepped	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ago	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Carland	bogs and great pools of black water and creeping trickles of green water and squishy mools	all property	tree rules
2	creep	gerund				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	squirt	past	squishy mools			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	step	past	you		on mools = mool	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory
5	trickle		green water			nom trickle «event intransitive»: of=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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