The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 76
The coachman went for it and, in the bucket he pulled up, a pretty little duck was swimming.
Who acts: coachman, little duck · What happens: go, pull up, swim · To what, where: bucket
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (coachman, little duck), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coachman | det |
| 2 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulled | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bucket | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bucket | det |
| 10 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pulled | nsubj |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pulled | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swimming | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 duck | det |
| 16 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 17 little | advmod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 duck | amod |
| 18 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swimming | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 swimming | aux |
| 20 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 pulled | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the coachman | for water | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | pull up | past | coachman | the bucket | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swim | past · progressive | a little duck | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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