English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 27
And now the water in the room stood up to the window and washed against the glass, and swirled around his feet on the table.
Who acts: water · What happens: stand up, wash, swirl · To what, where: feet
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stood | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 water | nmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 stood | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 washed | cc |
| 14 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stood | conj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 glass | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glass | det |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 washed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swirled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swirled | cc |
| 20 | swirled | swirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stood | conj |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swirled | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 table | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 table | det |
| 26 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swirled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the water in the room | now | to the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wash | participle | the water in the room not said here | against the glass | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swirl | participle | the water in the room not said here | boy's feet | on the table | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around foot=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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