The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 38
She wandered in this manner through the whole village till she had drunk every water-pot dry.
Who acts: woman · What happens: wander, drink · To what, where: manner, pot dry
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 manner | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 manner | det |
| 5 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 village | amod |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 drunk | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drunk | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drunk | aux |
| 13 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wandered | advcl |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 dry | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pot | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dry | compound |
| 18 | dry | dry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drunk | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | woman | this manner | through the whole village | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | drink | past · perfect | woman | every pot dry | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dry=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 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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