--- title: But the little lass didn't sink; her clothes kept her up for a time,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:41:13 # text = 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. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 lass lass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 nsubj _ _ 11 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 till till SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 30 ashore ashore ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 just just ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/14/) - ↑ back to [The Fish and the Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/)