The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 77
On the morrow, at midday, the wife of a shoemaker who dwelt near the well went to draw water for her husband to drink, and she saw the shadow of the girl in the tree, and thought it was her own shadow.
Who acts: shoemaker, wife, husband, daughter, well · What happens: dwell, go, draw, drink, see, think · To what, where: well, morrow, water, shadow, tree, own shadow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker, wife, husband, daughter), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morrow | det |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 midday | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 midday | case |
| 6 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morrow | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morrow | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 shoemaker | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shoemaker | det |
| 12 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 dwelt | nsubj |
| 14 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shoemaker | acl:relcl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 well | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 well | det |
| 17 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dwelt | obl |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 draw | mark |
| 20 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 draw | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 drink | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drink | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 drink | mark |
| 26 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 draw | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saw | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shadow | det |
| 32 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 girl | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 girl | det |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shadow | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 tree | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 thought | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 thought | cc |
| 41 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 shadow | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 shadow | cop |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 shadow | amod |
| 46 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 thought | ccomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a shoemaker | the well | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near well=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the wife of a shoemaker | the morrow and midday | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | the wife of a shoemaker not said here | water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | daughter's husband | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | see | past | daughter | the shadow of the girl | the tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the wife of a shoemaker not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | well | daughter's own shadow | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | shadow | the girl | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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