The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 94
And he poured out the water, but he could not move from the place where he was; and there he stayed till many hours had passed by.
Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: pour out, not move, stay, pass by · To what, where: water, place, many hours
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 poured | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 poured | nsubj |
| 3 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 poured | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poured | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 move | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 move | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 move | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 move | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 move | advmod |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 poured | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 move | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 was | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 was | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stayed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 there | cc |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 stayed | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stayed | nsubj |
| 23 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poured | conj |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 passed | mark |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hours | amod |
| 26 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 passed | aux |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 stayed | advcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 passed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour out | past | shoemaker | the water | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not move | could | shoemaker | the place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | shoemaker | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass by | past · perfect · passive | many hours | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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