The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 24
When she got there with her pails, the first head rose up out of the water close to the bank.
Who acts: mother, first head · What happens: get, rise up · To what, where: close, water
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, first head), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rose | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pails | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pails | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rose | compound:prt |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | obl |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rose | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 bank | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bank | det |
| 21 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 close | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | mother | there | with mother's pails | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | rise up | past | the first head | close | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location |
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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