The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 81

‘Where is the water?’ asked the shoemaker, when she came back, and as she held nothing save the handle of the jug he went to the well himself.

Who acts: water, nothing, shoemaker · What happens: be, ask, come back, hold, save, go · To what, where: shoemaker, handle, jug

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 (water, nothing, shoemaker), 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	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 asked	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoemaker	det
10	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shoemaker	acl:relcl
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 held	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 held	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	nsubj
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	conj
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 save	nsubj
22	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 held	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 handle	det
24	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 save	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 jug	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 jug	det
27	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 handle	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 jug	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 well	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 well	det
32	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 well	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water		where property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past		the shoemaker		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Recipient
3	come back	past	water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hold	past	water			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	save	infinitive	nothing	the handle of the jug		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Theme
6	go	past	shoemaker	the jug not said here	to the well shoemaker	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/81/