More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 133
So the lassie stood still and looked at the water, till a strange kind of fish came swimming up to her feet.
Who acts: lassie, strange kind · What happens: stand, look, come, swim up · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lassie, strange kind), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lassie | det |
| 3 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kind | det |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kind | amod |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fish | case |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 19 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 swimming | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swimming | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the lassie | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the lassie not said here | at the water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a strange kind of fish | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | swim up | gerund | a strange kind of fish not said here | lassie's feet | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
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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