The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 65
It was I who drew the water, and you who poured it into the trenches.
Who acts: grain, you · What happens: be, pour · To what, where: grain, 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 (grain, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 poured | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 poured | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 poured | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 poured | nsubj |
| 12 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 poured | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 trenches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trenches | det |
| 16 | trenches | trench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 poured | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | grain | draw property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pour | past | you | grain | 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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