The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 80
Then the servant girl came out to fetch a pail of water, and, being a kind- hearted lass, she gave some to the horse to drink.
Who acts: servant girl, girl · What happens: come out, fetch, be, give, drink · To what, where: pail, hearted lass, some, horse
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant girl, girl), 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 | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | compound |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fetch | mark |
| 8 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pail | det |
| 10 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fetch | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pail | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lass | punct |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 lass | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lass | det |
| 18 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hearted | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 kind | punct |
| 20 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lass | amod |
| 21 | lass | lass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lass | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 gave | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 drink | mark |
| 30 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gave | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the servant girl | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | the servant girl not said here | a pail of water | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | a hearted lass | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | past | girl | some | the horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Theme to horse=Recipient | |||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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