More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 75

So she drove them right into the pond to make them drink faster, and they were all drowned.

Who acts: mother, cows · What happens: drive, make, drink, drown · To what, where: cows, pond

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	So	so	ADV	_	3 drove	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	8 pond	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drove	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
13	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 drink	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drowned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drowned	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drowned	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 drowned	aux:pass
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 drowned	advmod
19	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drove	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	mother	cows = cow	the pond		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into pond=Trajectory
2	make	to-infinitive	mother not said here	cows = cow			tree rules
3	drink	infinitive	cows = cow not said here			fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drown	past · passive		cows = cow		all property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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