The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 82

Then she suddenly bethought herself of the pitcher of water, and, hoping that it might have some magic power, she ran to fetch it, and sprinkled a few drops over the fierce-looking swarm of rats.

Who acts: Felicia, water · What happens: bethink, hope, have, run, fetch, sprinkle · To what, where: Felicia, magic power, power, few drops, looking swarm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, water), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bethought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bethought	nsubj
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 bethought	advmod
4	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 bethought	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 pitcher	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pitcher	det
8	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bethought	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pitcher	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hoping	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hoping	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hoping	punct
14	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bethought	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hoping	ccomp
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 power	det
20	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 power	amod
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ran	nsubj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bethought	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fetch	mark
26	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ran	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fetch	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sprinkled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sprinkled	cc
30	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bethought	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 drops	det
32	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 drops	amod
33	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sprinkled	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	39 swarm	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 swarm	det
36	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 looking	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 fierce	punct
38	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 swarm	amod
39	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sprinkled	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 rats	case
41	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 swarm	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	Felicia	Felicia		then	of the pitcher of water; suddenly property	tree rules
2	hope	gerund	Felicia not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have	might	water	some magic power				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
4	run	past	Felicia					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fetch	to-infinitive	Felicia not said here	power				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	sprinkle	past	Felicia not said here	a few drops	the looking swarm of rats			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme over swarm=Destination
7	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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