The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 84
'Do not do that,' answered the owl, 'but fill the jar from the spring which bubbles close by the fountain with the many-coloured water.
Who acts: you, spring · What happens: not do, answer, fill, bubble · To what, where: that, owl, jar
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 (you, spring), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 owl | det |
| 10 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fill | cc |
| 14 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jar | det |
| 16 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 spring | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spring | det |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 bubbles | nsubj |
| 21 | bubbles | bubble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 spring | acl:relcl |
| 22 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 bubbles | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 fountain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fountain | det |
| 25 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bubbles | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 water | det |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 coloured | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 many | punct |
| 30 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 water | amod |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fountain | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative · do-support | you not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the owl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent owl=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fill | infinitive | you not said here | the jar | spring | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient | |||
| 4 | bubble | present | the spring | by the fountain with the coloured water; close property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fountain=Location |
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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