The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 16

And on the third morning, water to wash in and water to drink was standing for the man’s daughter, and milk to wash in and wine to drink for the woman’s daughter; and so it continued ever after.

Who acts: water, milk · What happens: wash, drink, stand, continue · To what, where: milk

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 (water, milk), 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	_	16 standing	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 morning	amod
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 water	punct
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wash	mark
9	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 water	acl
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 wash	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 in	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 drink	mark
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wash	advcl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	aux
16	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	for	for	ADP	_	21 daughter	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 daughter	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 man	case
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 milk	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 milk	cc
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 wash	mark
26	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 milk	acl
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 wash	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wine	cc
29	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wash	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 drink	mark
31	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wash	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 daughter	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woman	det
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 daughter	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 woman	case
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drink	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 continued	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 continued	cc
39	so	so	ADV	_	41 continued	advmod
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 continued	nsubj
41	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	parataxis
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 after	advmod
43	after	after	ADV	_	41 continued	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive	water not said here				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	to-infinitive	water not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stand	past · progressive	water	milk	morning	for the man's daughter	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for daughter=Attribute
4	wash	to-infinitive	water not said here	milk not said here			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	to-infinitive	water not said here			for the woman's daughter	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	continue	past	milk			after property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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