More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 96
But still he pulled till he had got the thing to land, when it turned out to be a Worm of hideous shape.
Who acts: fishing, thing · What happens: pull, get, land, turn out, be · To what, where: thing, 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: who acts (fishing, thing), 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 | _ | 4 pulled | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 pulled | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 land | mark |
| 12 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 got | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 turned | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 turned | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 Worm | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Worm | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Worm | det |
| 21 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 shape | case |
| 23 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shape | amod |
| 24 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Worm | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | fishing | still | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | fishing | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | land | to-infinitive | the thing not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn out | past | thing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | thing not said here | a Worm | of hideous shape | tree rules |
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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