The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 81
Stopping over the side, she filled it to the brim, but as soon as she lifted it the water all ran out of the holes.
Who acts: woman, water · What happens: stop, fill, lift, run · To what, where: side, holes
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 (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 | Stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 filled | advcl |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stopping | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stopping | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 brim | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brim | det |
| 11 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lifted | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 lifted | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 lifted | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 lifted | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lifted | nsubj |
| 18 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lifted | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lifted | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 holes | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 holes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 holes | det |
| 27 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ran | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | woman not said here | the side | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | woman | side | to the brim | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | lift | past | woman | side | soon property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | run | past | the water | the holes | all property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hole=Trajectory |
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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