The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 46

So they began to straggle homeward, but when they had got a little way up the hill they met the herrings and pottage and bread, all pouring forth and winding about one over the other, and the man himself in front of the flood.

Who acts: herrings, all · What happens: begin, straggle, get, meet, pour, wind · To what, where: Man, homeward, little way, herrings

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herrings, all), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 straggle	mark
5	straggle	straggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straggle	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 got	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 got	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 got	aux
12	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 began	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obl
16	up	up	ADP	_	18 hill	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hill	det
18	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	nmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 met	nsubj
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hill	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 herrings	det
22	herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 met	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pottage	cc
24	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 herrings	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bread	cc
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pottage	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pouring	punct
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 pouring	nsubj
29	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 got	advcl
30	forth	forth	ADV	_	29 pouring	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 winding	cc
32	winding	wind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 pouring	conj
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 one	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 winding	obl
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 other	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 other	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 one	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 himself	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 himself	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 man	det
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 himself	nsubj
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 began	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 front	case
44	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 himself	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 flood	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 flood	det
47	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 front	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	herrings = herring	Man		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	straggle	to-infinitive	herrings = herring not said here	homeward		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme
3	get	past · perfect	herrings = herring	a little way up the hill		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	meet	past	herrings = herring	the herrings and pottage and bread		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herring=Co-Agent
5	pour	gerund	all		forth property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
6	wind	gerund	all not said here		about one over the other	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about one=Trajectory

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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