Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 26

The water still rose, and when it reached her neck she kept on crying:

Who acts: water, sister · What happens: rise, reach, keep, cry · To what, where: neck

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	4 rose	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 rose	advmod
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 neck	nmod:poss
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	15 crying	mark
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 kept	advcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	rise	past	the water		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	water	sister's neck		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
3	keep	past	sister			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	gerund	sister not said here			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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