English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 24
It rose to the boy's knees and still more water was poured.
Who acts: Enough enough · What happens: rise, pour · To what, where: knees, more water
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enough enough), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 knees | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rose | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 poured | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 poured | aux:pass |
| 13 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rose | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Enough enough = enough | the boy's knees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to knee=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pour | past · passive | more water | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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