The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 35

But the waters seized her chariot and sunk it in the lowest depths, and the waves bore the wicked old woman down the stream till she was caught in some thorn bushes, where she made a good meal for all the little fishes that were swimming about.

Who acts: waters, waves, water, little fishes · What happens: seize, sink, bear, catch, make, swim · To what, where: chariot, lowest depths, wicked old woman, water, thorn bushes, good meal

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters, waves, water, little fishes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 seized	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 waters	det
3	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chariot	nmod:poss
6	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sunk	cc
8	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sunk	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 depths	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 depths	det
12	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 depths	amod
13	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sunk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bore	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bore	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 waves	det
17	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bore	nsubj
18	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bore	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	25 stream	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stream	det
25	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 woman	nmod
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 caught	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 caught	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 caught	aux:pass
29	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bore	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 bushes	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 bushes	det
32	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bushes	compound
33	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 caught	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 made	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 made	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 made	nsubj
37	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bushes	acl:relcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 meal	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 meal	amod
40	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	45 fishes	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 fishes	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fishes	det
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 fishes	amod
45	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 meal	nmod
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 swimming	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 swimming	aux
48	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 fishes	acl:relcl
49	about	about	ADV	_	48 swimming	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the waters	water's chariot			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme
2	sink	past	the waters not said here	chariot	the lowest depths		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	bear	past	the waves	the wicked old woman		down the stream	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
4	catch	past · passive		water	some thorn bushes		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	make	past	water	a good meal		for all little fishes	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meal=Product for fish=Beneficiary
6	swim	past · progressive	all little fishes			about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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