The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 61

Among other things, this poor child was forced twice a day to draw water above a mile and a half off the house, and bring home a pitcher full of it.

Who acts: poor child · What happens: force, draw, bring · To what, where: poor child, water, house, pitcher

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor child), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 things	case
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forced	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 things	punct
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 child	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forced	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forced	aux:pass
9	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 day	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forced	obl:unmarked
13	to	to	PART	_	14 draw	mark
14	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forced	xcomp
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draw	obj
16	above	above	ADP	_	18 mile	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mile	det
18	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draw	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 half	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 half	det
21	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 mile	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bring	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bring	cc
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forced	conj
28	home	home	ADV	_	27 bring	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pitcher	det
30	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obj
31	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bring	xcomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 full	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		this poor child		day	among other things	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	draw	to-infinitive	this poor child not said here	water	the house		above a mile and a half	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme off house=Initial_Location
3	bring	infinitive		a pitcher			full, home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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