The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 36
The can being broken, he brought hame as little water as the other had done, and the cake was as little.
Who acts: man, other, cake · What happens: break, bring, do, be · To what, where: hame
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, other, cake), 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 broken | det |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 broken | aux:pass |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | conj |
| 8 | hame | hame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 brought | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 little | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 little | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cake | det |
| 20 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 little | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 little | cop |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 little | advmod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 broken | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | can · passive | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past | man | hame | as little water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hame=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the other | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the cake | little 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 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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