More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 74

All went well till one day when she had driven them to the pond to drink, she thought they did not drink fast enough.

Who acts: mother, cows · What happens: go, drive, drink, think, not drink · To what, where: cows, pond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, cows), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
4	till	till	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 driven	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 driven	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 driven	aux
10	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 driven	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 pond	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pond	det
14	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 driven	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drink	mark
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pond	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drink	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 drink	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 drink	advmod
23	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	ccomp
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 drink	advmod
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 drink	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past				day	well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive	past · perfect	mother	cows = cow	the pond			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to pond=Trajectory
3	drink	to-infinitive	mother not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	mother					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not drink	past · do-support	cows = cow				enough, fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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