More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 4
But she clomb and she clomb, till she got dizzy in the light and shivered with the cold, and dazed with the fear; but still she clomb, till at last, quite dazed and silly-like, she let clean go, and sank down--down--down.
Who acts: she clomb, t · What happens: get, shiver, daze, let, go, sink down · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she clomb, t), 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 | _ | 3 clomb | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clomb | compound |
| 3 | clomb | clomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 clomb | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 clomb | compound |
| 6 | clomb | clomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clomb | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 got | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 light | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shivered | cc |
| 16 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 light | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 cold | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cold | det |
| 19 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shivered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dazed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dazed | cc |
| 22 | dazed | daze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 got | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 fear | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fear | det |
| 25 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dazed | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 clomb | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 clomb | cc |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 clomb | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 clomb | compound |
| 30 | clomb | clomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 last | punct |
| 32 | till | till | ADP | _ | 34 last | case |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 last | case |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 clomb | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 dazed | punct |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 dazed | advmod |
| 37 | dazed | daze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 clomb | parataxis |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 silly | cc |
| 39 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dazed | conj |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 like | punct |
| 41 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 39 silly | discourse |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 let | punct |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 let | nsubj |
| 44 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 clomb | conj |
| 45 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 let | xcomp |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 let | xcomp |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 sank | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 sank | cc |
| 49 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | advcl |
| 50 | down | down | ADV | _ | 49 sank | advmod |
| 51 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 down | punct |
| 52 | down | down | ADV | _ | 49 sank | advmod |
| 53 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 down | punct |
| 54 | down | down | ADV | _ | 52 down | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | she clomb and she clomb | the light | dizzy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | shiver | participle | she clomb and she clomb not said here | with the cold | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | daze | participle | she clomb and she clomb not said here | with the fear | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | daze | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | let | past | t | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | t not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sink down | past | she clomb and she clomb not said here | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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