The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 55

After this, it rained very hard, which wetted them to the skin; their feet slipped at every step they took, and they fell into the mire, whence they got up in a very dirty pickle; their hands were quite benumbed.

Who acts: it, feet, birds · What happens: rain, wett, slip, take, fall, get up · To what, where: birds, step, mire, dirty pickle, hands

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, feet, birds), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 rained	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rained	nsubj
5	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 rained	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wetted	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wetted	nsubj
10	wetted	wett	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rained	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wetted	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 skin	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skin	det
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wetted	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 slipped	punct
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 slipped	nsubj
18	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rained	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 step	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 step	det
21	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slipped	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 step	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 slipped	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 mire	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mire	det
30	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 got	punct
32	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	34 got	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fell	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 got	compound:prt
36	in	in	ADP	_	40 pickle	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pickle	det
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 dirty	advmod
39	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 pickle	amod
40	pickle	pickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 benumbed	punct
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hands	nmod:poss
43	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 benumbed	nsubj:pass
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 benumbed	aux:pass
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 benumbed	advmod
46	benumbed	benumb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rained	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past	it			after this	hard property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	wett	past		birds = bird			to the skin	tree rules
3	slip	participle	birds's feet				at every step	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	take	past	birds = bird	every step not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
5	fall	past	birds = bird				into the mire result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mire=Result
6	get up	past	birds = bird		a dirty pickle		whence property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	benumb	past · passive		birds's hands				tree rules

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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