More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 85

As she was thirsty she drank some, and left the rest in the pails by the cow.

Who acts: cow · What happens: be, drink, leave · To what, where: some, rest, pails

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 thirsty	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thirsty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thirsty	cop
4	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drank	nsubj
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thirsty	ccomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 drank	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drank	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pails	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pails	det
15	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 left	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 cow	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cow	det
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thirsty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	cow			thirsty property	tree rules
2	drink	past	cow	some			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	leave	past	cow not said here	the rest	the pails	by the cow	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rest=Theme in pail=Location

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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