The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 89
He passed by the many- coloured water without casting a glance at it, and filled the jar from the fountain whose water was clear and pure.
Who acts: two, water · What happens: pass, cast, fill, be · To what, where: glance, jar, fountain
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 (two, water), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coloured | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
| 7 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 casting | mark |
| 10 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 passed | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 glance | det |
| 12 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 casting | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 casting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 filled | cc |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 jar | det |
| 19 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 fountain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fountain | det |
| 22 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clear | obl |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 water | nmod:poss |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clear | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 clear | cop |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 filled | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pure | cc |
| 28 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 clear | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | two | by the coloured water | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by water=Location | ||||
| 2 | cast | gerund | two not said here | a glance | glance | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at it=Destination | |||
| 3 | fill | past | two not said here | the jar | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | water | the fountain | clear property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | water not said here | tree rules |
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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