English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 42

She upped and oped it, and what should she see but a small little black thing with a long tail.

Who acts: Darter · What happens: up, ope, see · To what, where: sort

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 (Darter), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 upped	nsubj
2	upped	up	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 oped	cc
4	oped	ope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 upped	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 oped	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 see	obj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 upped	conj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 thing	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 tail	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tail	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tail	amod
21	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thing	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 upped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	up	past	Darter		tree rules
2	ope	past	Darter not said here	sort	tree rules
3	see	should	Darter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/42/