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The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 29

Immediately the head of the hunter rose up from the pond, getting higher and higher each moment, till at length he stepped on to the bank and fell on his wife’s neck.

Who acts: head · What happens: rise up, get, step on, fall · To what, where: pond, bank, neck

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (head), 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

advmoddetnsubjcasedetnmodcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctadvclxcompccconjdetobjpunctcasecaseoblnsubjconjcompound:prtcasedetoblccconjcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootImmediatelyADVtheDETheadNOUNofADPtheDEThunterNOUNroseVERBupADPfromADPtheDETpondNOUN,PUNCTgettingVERBhigherADJandCCONJhigherADJeachDETmomentNOUN,PUNCTtillADPatADPlengthNOUNhePRONsteppedVERBonADPtoADPtheDETbankNOUNandCCONJfellVERBonADPhisPRONwifeNOUN’sPARTneckNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ImmediatelyimmediatelyADV_7 roseadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 headdet
3headheadNOUNNumber=Sing7 rosensubj
4ofofADP_6 huntercase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 hunterdet
6hunterhunterNOUNNumber=Sing3 headnmod
7roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8upupADP_7 rosecompound:prt
9fromfromADP_11 pondcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 ponddet
11pondpondNOUNNumber=Sing7 roseobl
12,,PUNCT_13 gettingpunct
13gettinggetVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 roseadvcl
14higherhighADJDegree=Cmp13 gettingxcomp
15andandCCONJ_16 highercc
16higherhighADJDegree=Cmp14 higherconj
17eacheachDETPronType=Tot18 momentdet
18momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing13 gettingobj
19,,PUNCT_24 steppedpunct
20tilltillADP_22 lengthcase
21atatADP_22 lengthcase
22lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing24 steppedobl
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 steppednsubj
24steppedstepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 roseconj
25ononADP_24 steppedcompound:prt
26totoADP_28 bankcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 bankdet
28bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing24 steppedobl
29andandCCONJ_30 fellcc
30fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 steppedconj
31ononADP_35 neckcase
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 wifenmod:poss
33wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing35 necknmod:poss
34’s'sPART_33 wifecase
35neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing30 fellobl
36..PUNCT_7 rosepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rise uppastthe head of the hunterthe pondimmediately propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pond=Initial_Location
2getgerundthe head of the hunter not said heremomenthigh propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3step onpastheadthe banktill lengthvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination
4fallpasthead not said herehead's wife's neckvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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