English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 25
It mounted to his waist, and Beelzebub still kept on bringing barrels full.
Who acts: water, Beelzebub · What happens: mount, keep, bring · To what, where: waist, barrels
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 (water, Beelzebub), 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 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 waist | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 waist | nmod:poss |
| 5 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 8 | Beelzebub | Beelzebub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 kept | advmod |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 bringing | mark |
| 12 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 kept | advcl |
| 13 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bringing | obj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bringing | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | water | boy's waist | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to waist=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Beelzebub | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | Beelzebub not said here | barrels | full property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme |
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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