The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 11
The girl did as she was bid, but the water drew the hole together and the boot filled up to the very top.
Who acts: girl, water, boot · What happens: do, bid, draw, fill up · To what, where: woman, hole
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, water, boot), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bid | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux:pass |
| 7 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 drew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 drew | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 filled | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boot | det |
| 18 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | nsubj |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 drew | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 filled | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 top | advmod |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | the water | the hole | together property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||
| 4 | fill up | participle | the boot | to the top | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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