The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 95

She longed desperately for a draught of milk from a gourd, for there were no streams in that part, and she was very thirsty, but how was she to earn anything with only one hand?

Who acts: sister, streams · What happens: long, be · To what, where: gourd

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, streams), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	desperately	desperately	ADV	_	2 longed	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 draught	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 draught	det
6	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 longed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 milk	case
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draught	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 gourd	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gourd	det
11	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 longed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 were	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 were	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 were	expl
15	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 longed	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 streams	det
17	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 were	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 part	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 part	det
20	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 streams	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thirsty	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thirsty	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thirsty	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thirsty	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 thirsty	advmod
26	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 longed	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 earn	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 earn	cc
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 earn	advmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 earn	cop
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 earn	nsubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 earn	mark
33	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thirsty	conj
34	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 earn	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 hand	case
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 one	advmod
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hand	nummod
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 earn	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	long	past	sister	a gourd	for a draught of milk; desperately property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for draught=Theme
2	be	past	no streams in that part	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	sister		thirsty property	tree rules
4	is	past	sister		with one hand; earn property	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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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