The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 3

But now there was no water in the house, so she asked her mother to give her the lamp, so that she could go to the well for more.

Who acts: water, mother · What happens: be, give, go · To what, where: lamp, mother, well · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 was	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 was	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 asked	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lamp	det
20	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 go	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 give	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 well	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 well	det
29	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 more	case
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be speech: ask	past	water				ask property	tree rules
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive		the lamp	mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lamp=Theme
3	go	could	mother			the well	for more	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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