The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 31
In a short time he reached the stream, filled his pitcher with water, and turned round again.
Who acts: wind · What happens: reach, fill, turn round · To what, where: stream, pitcher
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 (wind), 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 | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | wind | the stream | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | past | wind not said here | wind's pitcher | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pitcher=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | turn round | past | wind not said here | again | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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