The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 101

“The water! the water!” gasped one of the young men; and there it was, slowly but steadily mounting the ridge itself.

Who acts: water · What happens: gasp, be, mount · To what, where: one, ridge

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 gasped	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gasped	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
9	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 gasped	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 slowly	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 was	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 was	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 slowly	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slowly	punct
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	9 gasped	advmod
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 mounting	cc
23	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	24 mounting	advmod
24	mounting	mount	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 slowly	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ridge	det
26	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mounting	obj
27	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	26 ridge	nmod:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gasp	past	the water	one of the young men		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	is	past			slowly property	tree rules
3	mount	gerund		the ridge Bunyip	steadily property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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