Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 22

The water continued to rise until it reached her knee, when she began to wail again:

Who acts: water, sister · What happens: continue, rise, reach, begin, wail · To what, where: knee

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, 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 (water, sister), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continued	nsubj
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 rise	mark
5	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 continued	xcomp
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rise	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 knee	nmod:poss
10	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 began	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wail	mark
16	wail	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 wail	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	continue	past	the water			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rise	to-infinitive	the water not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reach	past	water	sister's knee		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent knee=Theme
4	begin	past	sister			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	wail	to-infinitive	sister not said here		again	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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