More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 62
Just as she came near a big black pool her foot slipped and she was nigh tumbling in.
Who acts: goodwife, foot · What happens: come, slip, be, tumble in · To what, where: big black pool
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 (goodwife, foot), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 pool | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pool | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pool | amod |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pool | amod |
| 9 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 foot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slipped | nsubj |
| 12 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pool | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 nigh | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 nigh | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 nigh | cop |
| 16 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | conj |
| 17 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 nigh | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 tumbling | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | goodwife | a big black pool | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near pool=Location | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | goodwife's foot | a big black pool not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pool=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | goodwife | nigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tumble in | gerund | goodwife not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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