Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 28

At length the water became so deep that she felt herself drowning, then she cried aloud:

Who acts: water, sister · What happens: become, feel, drown, cry · To what, where: length, sister

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 deep	advmod
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 felt	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 deep	advcl
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 felt	obj
12	drowning	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 felt	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 cried	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
17	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	16 cried	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the water		length		deep property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	feel	past	sister	sister				tree rules
3	drown	gerund	sister not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	sister			then	aloud property	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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