The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 84

Fairer-than-a-Fairy eagerly ran to the window, but in her haste she upset the basin, and spilt all the water with which she had carefully filled it overnight.

Who acts: Fairer, sun · What happens: run, upset, spilt, fill · To what, where: basin, haste, water

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairer, sun), 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	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ran	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Fairy	punct
3	than	than	ADP	_	7 Fairy	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 than	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 a	punct
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fairer	appos
8	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 upset	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 upset	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 haste	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 haste	nmod:poss
17	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 upset	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 upset	nsubj
19	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 basin	det
21	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 upset	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spilt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spilt	cc
24	spilt	spilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 water	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spilt	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 filled	obl
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 filled	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 filled	aux
32	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	33 filled	advmod
33	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 spilt	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 filled	obj
35	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	33 filled	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	Fairer			to the window result; eagerly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result
2	upset	past	sun	the basin	sun's haste		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus basin=Experiencer
3	spilt	past	Fairer not said here	all water			tree rules
4	fill	past · perfect	sun	water		carefully, overnight property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with which=Instrument

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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