The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 33

Every inch of it covered with all manner of fish jumping and plunging about to the music, and every moment more and more would tumble in and out of the water, charmed by the wonderful tune.

Who acts: fish, moment · What happens: cover, jump, plunge, tumble in, charm · To what, where: inch, music, water

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, moment), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 inch	det
2	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 inch	nmod
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 manner	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 manner	det
8	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fish	case
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 manner	nmod
11	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fish	acl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 plunging	cc
13	plunging	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 jumping	conj
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 plunging	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 music	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 music	det
17	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plunging	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tumble	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tumble	cc
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tumble	nsubj
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 moment	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 more	cc
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 more	conj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tumble	aux
26	tumble	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 covered	conj
27	in	in	ADV	_	32 water	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 water	cc
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 water	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tumble	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 charmed	punct
34	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 water	acl
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 tune	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tune	det
37	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tune	amod
38	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 charmed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	participle · passive		every inch of dancing		with all manner of fish	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with manner=Theme
2	jump	gerund	fish not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	plunge	gerund	fish not said here		the music	about property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to music=Initial_Location
4	tumble in	would	every moment		the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out water=Initial_Location
5	charm	participle		the water not said here		by the wonderful tune	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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