The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 43
Therefore take this sieve to the well, and fill it with water, and see that you bring it back without spilling a drop.'
Who acts: you · What happens: take, fill, see, bring back, spill · To what, where: sieve, well, drop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 take | advmod |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sieve | det |
| 4 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fill | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fill | cc |
| 10 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fill | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fill | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | nsubj |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 bring | advmod |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 spilling | mark |
| 23 | spilling | spill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 bring | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 drop | det |
| 25 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spilling | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | therefore property | 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 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bring back | infinitive | you | sieve | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spill | gerund | you not said here | a drop | 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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