English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 6

In came a pair of thick thick knees, and sat down on the small small legs;

What happens: come, sit down · To what, where: pair, small small legs

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	4 pair	det
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 knees	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knees	amod
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knees	amod
8	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pair	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 legs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 legs	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 legs	amod
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 legs	amod
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sat	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

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