The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 15

So he leaned over into the barrel, which did not seem very deep, and thought he would easily reach the ring; but the more he stretched down after it the deeper grew the barrel.

Who acts: Prince, barrel, deeper · What happens: learn over, not seem, think, reach, stretch down, grow · To what, where: barrel, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, barrel, deeper), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 leaned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leaned	nsubj
3	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 leaned	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 barrel	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barrel	det
7	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seem	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seem	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seem	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 seem	advmod
12	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 barrel	acl:relcl
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 deep	advmod
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seem	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leaned	conj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reach	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 reach	aux
20	easily	easily	ADV	_	21 reach	advmod
21	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ring	det
23	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reach	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 stretched	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 stretched	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 more	det
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 stretched	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stretched	nsubj
29	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leaned	parataxis
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 stretched	compound:prt
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stretched	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 deeper	det
34	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 grew	nsubj
35	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stretched	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 barrel	det
37	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grew	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn over	past	Prince		the barrel		over property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not seem	past · do-support	the barrel				deep property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	Prince not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	reach	would	Prince	the ring			easily property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
5	stretch down	past	Prince			after barrel		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	grow	past	the deeper	the barrel				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location barrel=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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