English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 5

At length the king was on his way back; but he had a big river to cross, and there was a whirlpool, and he could not get over the water.

Who acts: king, boy · What happens: be, have, cross, not get · To what, where: way, big river, water

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, boy), 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	8 way	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 river	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 river	amod
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cross	mark
18	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 river	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 whirlpool	det
24	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 get	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 get	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 get	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 get	advmod
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	conj
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king		boy's way	at length	tree rules
2	have	past	boy	a big river			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
3	cross	to-infinitive	boy not said here	a big river not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not get	could	boy		the water		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over water=Destination

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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