The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 120

The old hag began now to long for the water, and said that the girl would be running about with the gold piece all over the plain, so she asked her son to go and get her a drop of water.

Who acts: old hag, girl · What happens: begin, say, run about, ask, go, get · To what, where: plain, son, drop, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old hag, girl), 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	3 hag	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hag	amod
3	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 long	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 long	mark
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 began	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 running	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 running	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 running	aux
19	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 running	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 piece	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 piece	det
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	compound
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	obl
25	all	all	ADV	_	28 plain	advmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 plain	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 plain	det
28	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 asked	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 asked	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 asked	nsubj
32	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 son	nmod:poss
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 asked	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 asked	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 get	cc
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 go	conj
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 get	obj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 drop	det
41	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 water	case
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drop	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the old hag				for the water; long property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run about	would · progressive	the girl			the plain	with the gold piece; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over plain=Trajectory
4	ask speech: ask	past	girl		girl's son			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get	infinitive	girl not said here	a drop of water	girl			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary 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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