The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 39
He filled a bottle with the healing water, and then continued his journey in the best of spirits.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: fill, continue, journey · To what, where: bottle, journey, best
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 7 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | compound |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 continued | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 continued | advmod |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 journey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 best | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 best | det |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 continued | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 spirits | case |
| 19 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 best | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Ferko | a bottle | with the healing water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 2 | continue | past | Ferko's journey | the best of spirits | then | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 3 | journey | Ferko | nom journey «act 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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