More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 105
For some time nothing more was seen or heard of the Worm, till one day it had outgrown the size of the well, and came forth full-grown.
What happens: see, hear, outgrow, come, grow · To what, where: Worm
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 nothing | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 nothing | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | compound |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 seen | obl |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 seen | advmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seen | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Worm | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Worm | det |
| 12 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 outgrown | punct |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 outgrown | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 outgrown | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 outgrown | aux |
| 19 | outgrown | outgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seen | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 size | det |
| 21 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 outgrown | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 well | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 well | det |
| 24 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 size | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | conj |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 came | advmod |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grown | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 full | punct |
| 31 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 came | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | for nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | hear | participle | of the Worm | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of worm=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | outgrow | past · perfect · passive | Worm | day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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