The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 5

He had hardly dipped them in the pond when the nixy rose up in the water, and seizing him in her wet arms she dragged him down with her under the waves.

Who acts: hunter, nixy · What happens: dip, rise up, seize, drag down · To what, where: hands, pond, water, hunter, wet arms, waves

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 (hunter, nixy), 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	4 dipped	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dipped	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 dipped	advmod
4	dipped	dip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dipped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dipped	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 rose	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nixy	det
11	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dipped	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 rose	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seizing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seizing	cc
19	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rose	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seizing	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 arms	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
23	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 arms	amod
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seizing	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dragged	nsubj
26	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seizing	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dragged	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 dragged	compound:prt
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dragged	obl
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 waves	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 waves	det
33	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dragged	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dip	past · perfect	hunter	hands = hand	the pond	hardly property	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pond=Trajectory
2	rise up	past	the nixy		the water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
3	seize	gerund	the nixy not said here	hunter	nixy's wet arms		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	drag down	past	nixy	hunter	the waves	with her = she	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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