More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 29
MR. G. To carry water, and what were they carrying water for?
Who acts: G., horses · What happens: carry · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (G., horses), 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 | MR. | MR. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 G. | nmod:desc |
| 2 | G. | G. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | To | to | PART | _ | 4 carry | mark |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carrying | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carrying | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 carrying | obj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carrying | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carrying | nsubj |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 carry | advcl |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 carrying | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | to-infinitive | G. MR. | water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · progressive | horses = horse | water | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme what=Beneficiary water=Value |
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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