Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 24
The water continued to rise, and when it reached her waist, she cried again:
Who acts: water, sister · What happens: continue, rise, reach, cry · To what, where: waist
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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 waist | nmod:poss |
| 12 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 cried | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 waist | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent waist=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | sister | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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