The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 12

As he weighed at least four times as much as the fox the bucket went down with a jerk, and the other bucket, in which the fox was seated, came to the surface.

Who acts: wolf, bucket, other bucket · What happens: weigh, go down, seat, come · To what, where: much, fox, other bucket, surface

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, bucket, other bucket), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 weighed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 weighed	nsubj
3	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 least	case
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 four	nmod
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 weighed	obl:unmarked
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weighed	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 fox	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bucket	det
14	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 weighed	conj
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 jerk	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 jerk	det
19	jerk	jerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 came	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bucket	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bucket	amod
24	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seated	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 seated	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fox	det
29	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seated	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seated	aux:pass
31	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bucket	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seated	punct
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 weighed	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 surface	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 surface	det
36	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 weighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	past	wolf	much		time	as the fox	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
2	go down	past	the bucket				with a jerk; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	seat	past · passive		the fox	the other bucket			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in which=Location
4	come	past	the other bucket		the surface			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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