English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 107

And poor thing! through them not going on with what they begun with, they very near came to danger, as the castle was once very near sinking in the middle of the sea.

Who acts: man, castle · What happens: not go on, begun, come, sink · To what, where: danger, middle

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, castle), 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	_	3 thing	cc
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
5	through	through	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 going	advmod
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thing	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 going	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 going	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 begun	nsubj
13	begun	begun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	13 begun	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 near	advmod
18	near	near	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 danger	case
21	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sinking	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 sinking	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sinking	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sinking	aux
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 very	advmod
28	very	very	ADV	_	30 sinking	advmod
29	near	near	ADP	_	30 sinking	mark
30	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 came	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sinking	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 sea	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 middle	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not go on	gerund	man		with poor thing	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begun	present	man			tree rules
3	come	past	man	danger	near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to danger=Initial_Location
4	sink	past · progressive	the castle	the middle of the sea		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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