The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 29
It was arranged that whoever should first bring water out of a stream a long way off, should be the victor.
Who acts: whoever · What happens: arrange, bring, be · To what, where: leg, water, stream, victor
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (whoever), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arranged | aux:pass |
| 3 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 5 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 bring | advmod |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arranged | advcl |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 stream | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stream | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stream | det |
| 13 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 off | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 13 stream | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 victor | punct |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 victor | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 victor | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 victor | det |
| 22 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arranged | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · passive | leg | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | bring | should | whoever | water | a stream | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out stream=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | is a | should | the victor | tree rules |
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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