The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 52

Then she showed him a little trap-door in one corner of the room, and said: “Fill the silver flask with this water, which is below the trap-door.

Who acts: queen, water · What happens: show, say, fill, be · To what, where: little trap door, hurry, one corner, silver flask, trap door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, water), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 showed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 door	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 door	amod
7	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 trap	punct
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 corner	nummod
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corner	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Fill	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Fill	punct
21	Fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flask	det
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flask	compound
24	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Fill	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Fill	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 door	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 door	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 door	cop
31	below	below	ADP	_	35 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
33	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 trap	punct
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 water	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	queen	a little trap door	hurry	one corner of the room	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient door=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	queen not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fill in a quote	infinitive		the silver flask				with this water and the trap door	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent flask=Patient with water=Instrument
4	is in a quote	present	this water and the trap door			the trap door			tree rules

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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