More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 115
The Worm drew nearer and nearer, till at last it came up to the trough.
Who acts: Worm · What happens: draw, come up · To what, where: trough
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: who acts (Worm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Worm | det |
| 2 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 drew | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nearer | cc |
| 6 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 nearer | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drew | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 last | acl:relcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 trough | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trough | det |
| 16 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the Worm | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | Worm | the trough | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to trough=Initial_Location |
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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