The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 30
The Prince, moved by pity, without thinking what he was doing, ran to the courtyard of the castle, and filled a jug with water, which he poured over the man in the cauldron.
Who acts: Prince, jug · What happens: move, think, do, run, fill, pour · To what, where: Prince, jug, cauldron · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince, jug), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Prince | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 pity | case |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 thinking | mark |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 moved | advcl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 doing | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 doing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 doing | aux |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thinking | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 courtyard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 courtyard | det |
| 18 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 courtyard | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 filled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 filled | cc |
| 24 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ran | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 jug | det |
| 26 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 filled | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jug | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 poured | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 poured | nsubj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 poured | nsubj |
| 32 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 jug | parataxis |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 man | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 poured | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 cauldron | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cauldron | det |
| 38 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 poured | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | participle | the Prince not said here | by pity | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by pity=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run | past | the Prince | to the courtyard of the castle result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Result | ||||
| 5 | fill | past | the Prince not said here | a jug | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent jug=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 6 | pour | past | a jug | the cauldron | over the man | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over man=Location |
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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