The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

By the well hang two buckets on a pole that were used, in former days, to draw up water.

Who acts: you · What happens: hang, use, draw up · To what, where: two buckets, pole, water

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hang	obl
4	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 buckets	nummod
6	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hang	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 pole	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pole	det
9	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hang	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 used	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux:pass
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pole	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 days	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 days	amod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 draw	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 draw	mark
19	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 hang	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 draw	compound:prt
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 draw	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	two buckets	a pole		by the well	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme by well=Destination
2	use	past · passive		a pole		day		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	draw up	to-infinitive	you not said here	water				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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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