The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 236

I sank at once to the bottom; but I did not hurt myself for underneath was growing the most beautiful soft grass.

Who acts: I · What happens: sink, not hurt, grow · To what, where: myself, beautiful soft grass

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 sank	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hurt	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 hurt	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hurt	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hurt	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hurt	advmod
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sank	parataxis
14	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hurt	obj
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 growing	mark
16	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	18 growing	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 growing	aux
18	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hurt	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grass	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grass	amod
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grass	amod
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 growing	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sink	past	I		to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not hurt	past · do-support	I	myself		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Patient
3	grow	past · progressive	I not said here	the beautiful soft grass	underneath property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=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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