More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 4

Still it pressed and pressed, till all the water around was crimsoned with its blood.

Who acts: you · What happens: still, press, crimson · To what, where: Worm, water

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Still	still	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Still	obj
3	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Still	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pressed	cc
5	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pressed	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
7	till	till	ADP	_	10 water	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 water	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Still	obl
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 crimsoned	mark
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crimsoned	aux:pass
13	crimsoned	crimson	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 water	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 blood	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 blood	nmod:poss
16	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crimsoned	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	still	imperative	you not said here	Worm	till all water		tree rules
2	press	participle	you not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	press	participle	you not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	crimson	past · passive		all water not said here		with Worm's blood	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with blood=Instrument

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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