English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 93

As they were all of them (Jack, mouse, frog, and eagle) passing over the great sea, they fell to quarrelling about which it was that got the little box, till down it slipped into the water.

Who acts: mice, eagle, quarrelling · What happens: be, pass, fall, get, slip · To what, where: great sea, little box, water

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 (mice, eagle, quarrelling), 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	As	as	ADP	_	8 Jack	case
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Jack	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Jack	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Jack	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 all	nmod
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 Jack	punct
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mouse	punct
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Jack	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frog	punct
12	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mouse	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eagle	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eagle	cc
15	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Jack	appos
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 eagle	punct
17	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 eagle	acl
18	over	over	ADP	_	21 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sea	amod
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Jack	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 quarrelling	case
26	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 was	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 was	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 quarrelling	acl:relcl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 got	nsubj
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 quarrelling	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 box	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 box	amod
35	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 slipped	punct
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 slipped	mark
38	down	down	ADP	_	40 slipped	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 slipped	nsubj
40	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	conj
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 water	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 water	det
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 slipped	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	mice = mouse			as Jack	tree rules
2	pass	gerund	eagle not said here		the great sea		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over sea=Location
3	fall	past	mice = mouse			to quarrelling	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to quarrelling=Theme
4	get	past	quarrelling	the little box			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus
5	slip	past	quarrelling		the water		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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