The Aesop for Children, The Crow and the Pitcher, sentence 6

With each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it was near enough so he could drink.

Who acts: water, idea · What happens: rise, be, drink

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Crow and the Pitcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, idea), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 pebble	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 pebble	det
3	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	nsubj
6	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 higher	obl:unmarked
9	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 rose	conj
10	until	until	ADP	_	12 last	case
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rose	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 near	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 near	cop
15	near	near	ADV	_	6 rose	conj
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 near	advmod
17	so	so	SCONJ	_	20 drink	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drink	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 drink	aux
20	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 near	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the water	until last	with each pebble	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	water		enough, near property	tree rules
3	drink	could	idea			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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