English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 13

But the little lass didn't sink; her clothes kept her up for a time, and she floated, and she floated, till she was cast ashore just in front of a fisherman's hut.

Who acts: little lass, clothes, lass · What happens: not sink, keep up, float, cast · To what, where: lass, front

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little lass, clothes, lass), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 sink	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lass	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lass	amod
4	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sink	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sink	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sink	advmod
7	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 clothes	nmod:poss
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sink	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 kept	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 floated	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 floated	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 floated	nsubj
20	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 floated	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 floated	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 floated	nsubj
24	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 floated	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cast	punct
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 cast	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cast	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 cast	aux:pass
29	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 floated	conj
30	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	29 cast	advmod
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 front	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 front	case
33	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cast	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 hut	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fisherman	det
36	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hut	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 fisherman	case
38	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 front	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sink	past · do-support	the little lass					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	keep up	past	lass's clothes	lass		time		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	float	past	lass					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	float	past	lass					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cast	past · passive		lass	front of a fisherman's hut		ashore property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in front=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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