The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 7
He sank lower and lower, and at last he came to the bottom.
Who acts: Minnikin · What happens: sink, come · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minnikin), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sank | nsubj |
| 2 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 sank | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lower | cc |
| 5 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 lower | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 came | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sank | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bottom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bottom | det |
| 14 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | Minnikin | low property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Minnikin | last | to the bottom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location |
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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