The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 20

But just as the hole was made, and the river-sucker was beginning to drink, the Master-maid told the Prince to throw one or two drops out of the flask, and when he did this the sea instantly became full of water again, and before the river-sucker could take one drink they reached the land and were in safety.

Who acts: river sucker, Master maid, giant, sea, one drink · What happens: make, begin, drink, tell, throw, do · To what, where: hole, Prince, one drops, flask, this, land · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Master maid, giant, sea), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	7 made	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beginning	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 beginning	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sucker	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sucker	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 river	punct
13	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beginning	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beginning	aux
15	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 made	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drink	mark
17	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 beginning	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 maid	det
20	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 maid	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Master	punct
22	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Prince	det
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 told	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 throw	mark
27	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	xcomp
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 drops	nummod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 two	cc
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 one	conj
31	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 throw	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 flask	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 flask	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 flask	det
35	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drops	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 did	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 did	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 did	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 did	nsubj
40	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 became	advcl
41	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 did	obj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sea	det
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 became	nsubj
44	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	45 became	advmod
45	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	parataxis
46	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 became	xcomp
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 water	case
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 full	obl
49	again	again	ADV	_	45 became	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 take	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 take	cc
52	before	before	ADP	_	56 sucker	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 sucker	det
54	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sucker	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 river	punct
56	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 take	obl
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 take	aux
58	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 became	advcl
59	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 drink	nummod
60	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 reached	nsubj
61	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 reached	nsubj
62	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 take	ccomp
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 land	det
64	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 reached	obj
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 safety	cc
66	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 safety	cop
67	in	in	ADP	_	68 safety	case
68	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 reached	conj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the hole					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	begin	past · progressive	the river sucker						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drink	to-infinitive	the river sucker not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	the Master maid		the Prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
5	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Master maid not said here	one drops		the flask			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent drop=Theme out flask=Destination
6	do	past	giant	this					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
7	become	past	the sea				again	full, instantly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	take	could	the sea not said here				before the river sucker		vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
9	reach	past	one drink	the land					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme
10	is	past	one drink not said here			safety			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 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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