The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 78
Take this sieve to the well, and fill it with water, and bring it home to me without spilling one drop by the way.'
Who acts: you · What happens: take, fill, bring, spill · To what, where: sieve, well, me, one drop
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sieve | det |
| 3 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 well | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 well | det |
| 6 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fill | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fill | cc |
| 9 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fill | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fill | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bring | cc |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 bring | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obl |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 spilling | mark |
| 21 | spilling | spill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 bring | advcl |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 drop | nummod |
| 23 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spilling | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spilling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this sieve | the well | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme to well=Destination | |||
| 2 | fill | infinitive | you not said here | sieve | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | sieve | me | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination | ||
| 4 | spill | gerund | you not said here | one drop | by the way | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drop=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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