The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 83
And first I must fill this far with the many-coloured water in the courtyard of the castle.'
Who acts: I · What happens: fill · To what, where: this, courtyard
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fill | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 fill | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fill | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fill | aux |
| 5 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fill | obj |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 fill | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coloured | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 many | punct |
| 12 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fill | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 courtyard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 courtyard | det |
| 16 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fill | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 courtyard | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fill | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | must | I | this | the courtyard of the castle | with the coloured water; far, first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent this=Patient with water=Instrument |
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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