The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 85

She found them nearly dying for want of water, and hastily poured all that was left in the pitcher upon them.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: find, die, pour, leave, want · To what, where: legs, that, pitcher, water

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 (Princess), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 dying	advmod
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 want	case
7	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dying	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 poured	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 poured	cc
12	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	13 poured	advmod
13	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 left	det:predet
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 left	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 left	aux:pass
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 poured	ccomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 pitcher	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pitcher	det
20	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pitcher	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Princess	legs = leg			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	die	gerund	Princess not said here			for want of water; nearly property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for want=Theme
3	pour	past				hastily property	tree rules
4	leave	past · passive		that	the pitcher upon legs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pitcher=Location
5	want			water			nom want «state transitive»: of=patient

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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