The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 219

Then he waded into the water up to his chin, and after being nearly drowned once or twice he at last succeeded in getting hold of the Princess’s bed and dragging it on shore.

Who acts: dog · What happens: wade up, drown, succeed, get, drag, hold · To what, where: water, dog, hold, shore, bed

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 waded	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waded	nsubj
3	waded	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waded	obl
7	up	up	ADP	_	3 waded	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 chin	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chin	nmod:poss
10	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waded	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drowned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drowned	cc
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 drowned	mark
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 drowned	aux:pass
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 drowned	advmod
16	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 waded	parataxis
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 drowned	advmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 twice	cc
19	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 once	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drowned	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 drowned	conj
23	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 last	acl
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 getting	mark
25	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 succeeded	advcl
26	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 getting	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 bed	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 bed	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Princess	case
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hold	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dragging	cc
33	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 getting	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dragging	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 shore	case
36	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dragging	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wade up	past	dog		the water	then	to dog's chin	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
2	drown	gerund · passive		dog			nearly, once property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
3	succeed	participle						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	gerund		hold of the Princess's bed				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
5	drag	gerund		hold	shore			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	hold			the Princess's bed				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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