English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 109

That was grinning from ear to ear, and Oo! that's tail was twirling round so fast.

Who acts: That, tail · What happens: grin, be, twirl · To what, where: ear, tail

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, tail), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 grinning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grinning	aux
3	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 ear	case
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grinning	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 ear	case
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grinning	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Oo	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Oo	cc
10	Oo	Oo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grinning	parataxis
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Oo	punct
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 tail	det
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tail	cop
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 twirling	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 twirling	aux
16	twirling	twirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 grinning	ccomp
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 twirling	advmod
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 twirling	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grinning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grin	past · progressive	That		ear	to ear	tree rules
2	is a	present		that tail			tree rules
3	twirl	past · progressive	that tail			fast, round property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

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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