The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 19
They will drop the wood and spill the water.'
Who acts: sisters · What happens: drop, spill · To what, where: wood, water
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drop | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 drop | aux |
| 3 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drop | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spill | cc |
| 7 | spill | spill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drop | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spill | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drop | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | future | sisters = sister | the wood | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spill | infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | the water | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=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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