The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 46

“I am thirsty and want some water,” answered he; and she took a large pot and carried it to the nearest spring, which was a good way off.

Who acts: I, wife, nearest spring · What happens: be, want, answer, take, carry · To what, where: water, large pot, pot, good way · 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 (I, wife, nearest spring), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 thirsty	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thirsty	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thirsty	cop
4	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answered	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 want	cc
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thirsty	conj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thirsty	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 thirsty	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pot	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pot	amod
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 carried	cc
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carried	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 spring	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spring	det
25	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 spring	amod
26	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 way	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 way	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 way	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 way	amod
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spring	conj
33	off	off	ADV	_	32 way	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I				thirsty property	tree rules
2	want in a quote	present	I not said here	some water				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past			water			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
4	take	past	wife	a large pot				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
5	carry	past	wife not said here	pot		spring		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is a	past	the nearest spring and a good way	a good way			off property	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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