The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 110

'Perhaps our sister may be sent to draw water here,' they said to each other.

Who acts: sheds · What happens: send, draw, say · To what, where: sister, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheds), 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	_	7 sent	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	nsubj:pass
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sent	aux:pass
7	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 draw	mark
9	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	advcl
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 draw	obj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 draw	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	15 said	obl
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	may · passive		our sister		perhaps property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	draw	to-infinitive		water	here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	sheds = shed			to each	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to each=Experiencer clause=Topic

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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