The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 51

But when she brought back a third supply he declared that it seemed made up of water-lilies, and that he must have water that was pure, and not spoilt by willows, or frogs, or rushes.

Who acts: woman, water · What happens: bring back, declare, make up, have, be, not spoil · To what, where: third supply, supply, water · 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 (woman, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 declared	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 brought	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 declared	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 brought	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 supply	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 supply	amod
8	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 declared	nsubj
10	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj:pass
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 declared	ccomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 made	compound:prt
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 lilies	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lilies	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 water	punct
19	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 declared	conj
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 pure	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pure	cop
29	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 water	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 spoilt	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 spoilt	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 spoilt	advmod
33	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 declared	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 willows	case
35	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 spoilt	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 frogs	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 frogs	cc
38	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 willows	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rushes	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 rushes	cc
41	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 willows	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	woman	a third supply		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent supply=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	water			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make up	past · passive		supply	of water lilies	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
4	have	must	water	water		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	is	past	water		pure property	tree rules
6	not spoil	participle	water not said here		by willows or frogs or rushes	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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