The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 41

And he gaed, and as he was bringing hame the water, a raven owre abune his head cried to him to look, and he would see that the water was running out.

Who acts: man, head, water · What happens: ga, bring, cry, look, see, run out · To what, where: hame, raven owre, man

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, head, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 gaed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gaed	nsubj
3	gaed	ga	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bringing	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bringing	cc
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 bringing	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bringing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bringing	aux
9	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gaed	advcl
10	hame	hame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bringing	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bringing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 owre	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 owre	det
15	raven	raven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 owre	amod
16	owre	owre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bringing	obl
17	abune	abune	X	Foreign=Yes	16 owre	flat:foreign
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 owre	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cried	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cried	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 see	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gaed	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 running	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 running	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 running	aux
34	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 see	advcl
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 running	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gaed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ga	past	man				tree rules
2	bring	past · progressive	man	hame		a raven owre obl	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent hame=Destination water=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	man's head	a raven owre not said here	man		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent owre=Topic to he=Recipient
4	look	to-infinitive	man's head not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	would	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	run out	past · progressive	the water				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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