The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 4

The lad gaed away wi’ the can to the well, and filled it wi’ water, and then came away hame again; but the can being broken the maist part of the water had run out before he got back.

Who acts: lad, ground · What happens: ga away, fill, wi, come away, break, run out · To what, where: wi, water, hame, maist part

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 (lad, ground), 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	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	nsubj
3	gaed	ga	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 gaed	advmod
5	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obj
6	’	'	ADP	_	11 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 well	det
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 well	aux
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 well	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 well	det
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 filled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 filled	cc
14	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gaed	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wi	nsubj
16	wi	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 filled	ccomp
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 water	punct
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wi	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 came	advmod
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gaed	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	hame	hame	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 hame	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 broken	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 broken	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 broken	det
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 broken	aux
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 broken	aux:pass
31	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gaed	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 part	det
33	maist	maist	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 part	compound
34	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 run	nsubj:pass
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 water	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 part	nmod
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 run	aux
39	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 broken	ccomp
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 run	compound:prt
41	before	before	SCONJ	_	43 got	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 got	nsubj
43	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 run	advcl
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 got	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gaed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ga away	past	the lad	wi		' the well; away property	tree rules
2	fill	past	the lad not said here				tree rules
3	wi	present	lad	water			tree rules
4	come away	past	the lad not said here	hame	then	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	break	can · passive					tree rules
6	run out	past · perfect · passive		the maist part of the water			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
7	get back	past	ground				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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