The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 105

Then Gudu's betrothed, who had been watching for him, brought out a pitcher of water--which she poured over them to wash off the dust of the road--and two portions of food.

Who acts: Gudu, pitcher · What happens: betroth, watch, bring out, pour, wash off · To what, where: Gudu, two portions, dust

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu, pitcher), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 brought	advmod
2	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 brought	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Gudu	case
4	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Gudu	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 watching	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 watching	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 watching	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 watching	aux
9	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Gudu	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watching	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 brought	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pitcher	det
16	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poured	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pitcher	nmod
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 poured	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 poured	nsubj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 poured	nsubj
22	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	parataxis
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 poured	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 wash	mark
26	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 poured	advcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 wash	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dust	det
29	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wash	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 road	det
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dust	nmod
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 portions	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 portions	cc
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 portions	nummod
36	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 poured	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 food	case
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 portions	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	betroth	participle		Gudu not said here			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	watch	past · perfect · progressive	Gudu			for Gudu	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
3	bring out	past	Gudu		then		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	pour	past	a pitcher of water	two portions of food		over leaves = leaf	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location
5	wash off	to-infinitive	a pitcher of water not said here	the dust of the road			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient

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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