The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 31

The water-pot was almost too heavy for her now, but morning and evening she carried it to the spring, though the effort to lift it to her shoulder was often too much for her.

Who acts: water pot, Tephany, effort · What happens: be, carry, lift · To what, where: pot, shoulder

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water pot, Tephany, effort), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pot	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heavy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heavy	cop
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 too	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 heavy	advmod
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 now	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 now	nmod:poss
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 heavy	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 carried	cc
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carried	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 evening	cc
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 morning	conj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carried	nsubj
18	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heavy	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carried	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 spring	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 spring	det
22	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carried	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 effort	punct
24	though	though	ADP	_	26 effort	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 effort	det
26	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 much	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lift	mark
28	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 effort	acl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lift	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 shoulder	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shoulder	nmod:poss
32	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lift	obl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 much	cop
34	often	often	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 carried	ccomp
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 much	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the water pot				heavy property	tree rules
2	carry	past	Tephany	pot		morning; spring		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	lift	to-infinitive	the effort not said here	pot	Tephany's shoulder			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shoulder=Destination
4	is	past	the effort				for Tephany; much, often 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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