Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 1

The well was deep, and therefore the rope had to be a long one; it was heavy work turning the handle when any one had to raise a bucketful of water over the edge of the well.

Who acts: well, rope, heavy work, one · What happens: be, have, turn, raise · To what, where: long one, heavy work, handle, bucketful, edge

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (well, rope, heavy work, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 well	det
2	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	cop
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	10 had	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rope	det
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	15 one	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 one	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 work	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 work	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 work	cop
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 work	amod
20	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deep	parataxis
21	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 work	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 handle	det
23	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turning	obj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 had	advmod
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 turning	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 raise	mark
29	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bucketful	det
31	bucketful	bucketful	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raise	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bucketful	nmod
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 edge	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 edge	det
36	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 raise	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 well	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 well	det
39	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 edge	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 deep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the well			deep property	tree rules
2	have	past	the rope			therefore property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	the rope not said here	a long one			tree rules
4	is a	past	rope	heavy work			tree rules
5	turn	gerund	heavy work not said here	the handle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme
6	have	past	any one				tree rules
7	raise	to-infinitive	any one not said here	a bucketful of water	the edge of the well		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucketful=Theme over edge=Destination

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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