The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 6

When she was going to draw the water from the well she set the lamp down on a stone beside her.

Who acts: Esben · What happens: go, draw, set down · To what, where: water, well, lamp, stone

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 (Esben), 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	4 going	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 draw	mark
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 well	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 well	det
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 well	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lamp	det
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 stone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Esben				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	draw	to-infinitive	Esben not said here	the water	the well		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location
3	set down	past	Esben	the lamp	a stone	beside water	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme on stone=Destination

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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