Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 15

Then the head and neck rose higher still, until the great shoulders and chest were shown above the ground.

Who acts: head · What happens: rise, show · To what, where: great shoulders, ground

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 rose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 head	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 neck	cc
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 head	conj
6	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 rose	advmod
8	still	still	ADV	_	7 higher	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shown	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 shown	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shoulders	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shoulders	amod
13	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shown	nsubj:pass
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 chest	cc
15	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shoulders	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shown	aux:pass
17	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rose	conj
18	above	above	ADP	_	20 ground	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ground	det
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shown	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the head and neck				then	high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	past · passive		the great shoulders and chest		the ground			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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