English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 94

(It was by them looking at it and handing it from one hand to the other that they dropped the little box to the bottom of the sea.)

Who acts: quarrelling, mice · What happens: look, hand, drop · To what, where: quarrelling, one hand, little box, bottom

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 (quarrelling, mice), 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	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 looking	mark
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	nsubj
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 handing	cc
10	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 looking	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 handing	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hand	nummod
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handing	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 handing	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 dropped	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dropped	nsubj
20	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 other	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 box	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 box	amod
23	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropped	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 bottom	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bottom	det
26	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 box	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bottom	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	quarrelling			at water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	hand	gerund	quarrelling not said here	quarrelling	one hand	to the other	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hand=Initial_Location to other=Destination
3	drop	past	mice = mouse	the little box	the bottom of the sea		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme to bottom=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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