The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 47

“Here is the water,” she said to her husband, lifting the heavy pot from her head; but he turned away in disgust.

Who acts: wife, water · What happens: be, say, lift, turn away · To what, where: water, husband, heavy pot, head, disgust · 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 (wife, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 water	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 husband	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lifting	punct
14	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pot	det
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pot	amod
17	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lifting	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lifting	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 turned	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 turned	nsubj
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
25	away	away	ADP	_	24 turned	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 disgust	case
27	disgust	disgust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	wife	the water	wife's husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient
3	lift	gerund	wife not said here	the heavy pot		wife's head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme from head=Destination
4	turn away	past	water			disgust		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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