The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 74
'And who it is that sings--he who draws the water, or he who empties it?'
Who acts: uncle · What happens: be, draw, empty · To what, where: water, world
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 (uncle), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sings | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sings | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sings | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sings | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sings | cop |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 sings | mark |
| 7 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 draws | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 draws | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 draws | nsubj |
| 11 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sings | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 draws | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 empties | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 empties | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 empties | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 empties | nsubj |
| 18 | empties | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sings | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 empties | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sings | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sing property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw | present | uncle | the water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | empty | present | uncle | world | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/19/74/