The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 17

So his river-sucker came and lay down, and drank one, two, three draughts, and with that the water in the sea fell so low that the giant saw the Master-maid and the Prince out on the sea in their ship.

Who acts: river sucker, water, giant · What happens: come, lay down, drink, fall, see out · To what, where: one, Master maid, sea

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river sucker, water, giant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sucker	nmod:poss
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sucker	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 river	punct
5	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lay	cc
8	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 lay	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drank	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drank	cc
12	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 drank	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 two	punct
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 one	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 draughts	punct
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 draughts	nummod
18	draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drank	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	28 fell	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 fell	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 water	nmod
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 low	advmod
30	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fell	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 saw	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 saw	nsubj
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 low	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 maid	det
36	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 maid	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Master	punct
38	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 Prince	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Prince	det
41	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 maid	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	34 saw	compound:prt
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 sea	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sea	det
45	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	obl
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 ship	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 ship	nmod:poss
48	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sea	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	giant's river sucker				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	infinitive	giant's river sucker not said here			down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	drink	past	giant's river sucker not said here	one		three draughts obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	fall	past	the water in the sea			low property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see out	past	the giant	the Master maid and the Prince	the sea in Prince's ship		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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