English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 26
It rose to his armpits, and he scrambled to the table-top.
Who acts: water, boy · What happens: rise, scramble · To what, where: armpits, table top
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, 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 | 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 | _ | 5 armpits | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 armpits | nmod:poss |
| 5 | armpits | armpit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rose | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scrambled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scrambled | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scrambled | nsubj |
| 9 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 table | punct |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scrambled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | water | boy's armpits | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to armpit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | scramble | past | boy | the table top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=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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