The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 41
So he did what they said, and carried the sieve full of water into the hut without spilling a drop.
Who acts: water, wrens · What happens: do, say, carry, spill · To what, where: sieve, hut, drop · 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 (water, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sieve | det |
| 11 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obj |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sieve | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 spilling | mark |
| 19 | spilling | spill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 carried | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 drop | det |
| 21 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spilling | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | water | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wrens = wren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry | past | water not said here | the sieve | the hut | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sieve=Theme | |||
| 4 | spill | gerund | water not said here | a drop | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drop=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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