The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 50

For months we have lived together, and I have twice every day drawn the water, while he only poured it into the trenches.

Who acts: we, I, day, jackal · What happens: live together, have, draw, pour · To what, where: water, trenches

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, day, jackal), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 months	case
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	aux
5	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 have	advmod
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
14	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 day	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drawn	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 poured	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 poured	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 poured	nsubj
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 poured	advmod
21	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 poured	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 trenches	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 trenches	det
25	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 poured	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live together	present · perfect	we			month	together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	I			day	twice property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	draw	participle	every day not said here	the water				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	pour	past	jackal	water	the trenches			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into trench=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: «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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