English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 20

In came a small small neck, and sat down on the broad broad shoulders;

What happens: come, sit down · To what, where: small small neck, broad broad shoulders

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 came	case
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 neck	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 neck	amod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 neck	amod
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 shoulders	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shoulders	det
13	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shoulders	amod
14	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shoulders	amod
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		a small small neck					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location neck=Theme
2	sit down	past				the broad broad shoulders			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location

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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