The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 43

He filled a pannikin quite full, and carried it home to his wife, who drank it eagerly, and said that she now felt quite well.

Who acts: water, wife · What happens: fill, carry, drink, say, feel · To what, where: pannikin, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, wife), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 filled	nsubj
2	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pannikin	det
4	pannikin	pannikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 filled	obj
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 full	advmod
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pannikin	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carried	cc
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 filled	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drank	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 drank	nsubj
17	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wife	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drank	obj
19	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	17 drank	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 filled	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 felt	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 felt	nsubj
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 felt	advmod
26	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 well	advmod
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 felt	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past	water	a pannikin				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pannikin=Patient
2	carry	past	water not said here	pannikin	water's wife		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wife=Destination
3	drink	past	water's wife	pannikin			eagerly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	feel	past	wife			now	well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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