Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 23

It came up around the king's chair, and wet not only his feet, but also his robe.

Who acts: water · What happens: come up · To what, where: chair

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	around	around	ADP	_	8 chair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chair	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wet	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wet	cc
11	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 feet	advmod
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 feet	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wet	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 robe	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 robe	cc
18	also	also	ADV	_	20 robe	advmod
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 robe	nmod:poss
20	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	water			the king's chair			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around chair=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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