English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 79

And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that's tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess.

Who acts: name, impet, that · What happens: get, begin, look, twirl, be, give · To what, where: end, tail, guess

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 (name, impet, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 got	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 got	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 month	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 month	det
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 impet	det
13	impet	impet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 maliceful	advmod
18	maliceful	maliceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 look	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 twirled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 twirled	cc
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 twirled	nsubj
22	twirled	twirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 tail	det
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tail	cop
25	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 twirled	obj
26	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 twirled	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 faster	cc
28	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 faster	conj
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 faster	obl:unmarked
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 time	acl:relcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 guess	det
34	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	name		towards the end of the month		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards end=Destination
2	begin	past	the impet				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	the impet not said here			maliceful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	twirl	past	that			fast property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present		that tail			tree rules
6	give	past	impet	a guess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=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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