The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 40

And when they had eaten the last crumb they told the boy to fill up the holes of the sieve with clay, and then to draw water from the well.

Who acts: wrens · What happens: eat, tell, fill up, draw · To what, where: last crumb, boy, holes, water, well · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wrens), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 eaten	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crumb	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crumb	amod
8	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fill	mark
14	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 fill	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 holes	det
17	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fill	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sieve	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sieve	det
20	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holes	nmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 clay	case
22	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sieve	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 draw	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 draw	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 draw	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 draw	mark
27	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	conj
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 draw	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 well	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 well	det
31	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 draw	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	wrens = wren	the last crumb				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	wrens = wren		the boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fill up not said to happen	to-infinitive	wrens = wren not said here	the holes of the sieve with clay				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
4	draw	to-infinitive	wrens = wren not said here	water		the well	then	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_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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