More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 95

At last," quoth he, "a bite worth having!" and he pulled and he pulled, till what should appear above the water but a head like an elf's, with nine holes on each side of its mouth.

Who acts: you, fishing · What happens: quoth, have, pull, appear · To what, where: fishing, last, water

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 (you, fishing), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quoth	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 quoth	punct
5	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quoth	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bite	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bite	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bite	det
10	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quoth	obl
11	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bite	amod
12	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 worth	xcomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 worth	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pulled	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pulled	nsubj
17	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quoth	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pulled	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pulled	nsubj
20	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pulled	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appear	punct
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 appear	mark
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 appear	obj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 appear	aux
25	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pulled	advcl
26	above	above	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appear	obl
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 head	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 head	det
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 water	conj
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 elf	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 elf	det
34	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appear	obl
35	's	's	PART	_	34 elf	case
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 holes	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 holes	case
38	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 holes	nummod
39	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 appear	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 side	case
41	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	42 side	det
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 holes	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 mouth	nmod:poss
45	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 side	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quoth in a quote	imperative	you not said here	fishing	last	a bite obl	tree rules
2	have	gerund	you not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pull in a quote	past	fishing				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull in a quote	past	fishing				vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appear in a quote	should	fishing not said here		the water but a head	like a elf; with nine holes on each side of side's mouth	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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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