More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 59

Water here and water there; waving tussocks and trembling mools, and great black snags all twisted and bent.

Who acts: great black · What happens: wave, tremble, snag · To what, where: tussocks, mools

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 (great black), 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	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	obl:unmarked
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 water	cc
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	conj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 here	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 waving	punct
7	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 here	advcl
8	tussocks	tussock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 waving	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trembling	cc
10	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 waving	conj
11	mools	mool	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trembling	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 snags	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 snags	cc
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 black	amod
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snags	nsubj
16	snags	snag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 here	conj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 twisted	advmod
18	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snags	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bent	cc
20	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 twisted	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund		tussocks		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tussock=Patient
2	tremble	gerund		mools		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mool=Theme
3	snag	present	great black		twisted 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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