The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 41

In the evening, when it was time for the animals to have their drink before going to bed, they found the lake quite dry, and they had to make up their minds to be thirsty till the water flowed again and the streams were full.

Who acts: ground, animals, water, streams · What happens: be, have, go, find, make up, flow · To what, where: time, drink, bed, lake, minds

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 (ground, animals, water, streams), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 time	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 time	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 time	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	cop
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	appos
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 animals	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 time	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 time	acl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 drink	nmod:poss
15	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 have	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 bed	case
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lake	det
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 dry	advmod
26	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lake	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 make	compound:prt
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 minds	nmod:poss
35	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 thirsty	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 thirsty	cop
38	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 make	advcl
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 flowed	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 water	det
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flowed	nsubj
42	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 thirsty	advcl
43	again	again	ADV	_	42 flowed	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 full	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 streams	det
46	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 full	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 full	cop
48	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 flowed	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ground	time			for the animals	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	animals = animal not said here	animals's drink				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
3	go	gerund	animals = animal not said here		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
4	find	past	animals = animal	the lake		evening		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic
5	have	past	animals = animal					tree rules
6	make up	to-infinitive	animals = animal not said here	animals's minds				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
7	is	to-infinitive	animals = animal not said here				thirsty property	tree rules
8	flow	past	the water			again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	the streams				full property	tree rules
10	mind		animals = animal					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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