The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 124

‘Go and fetch me water!’ said the mother, when the morning broke, and gave them twelve buffalo skins with the order to keep filling them till night.

Who acts: morning · What happens: go, fetch, say, break, give, keep · To what, where: water, me, mother, twelve buffalo skins, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fetch	cc
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fetch	obj
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 broke	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 broke	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 broke	nsubj
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mother	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 skins	nummod
22	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 skins	compound
23	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gave	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 order	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 order	det
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 skins	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 keep	mark
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 gave	advcl
29	filling	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 keep	xcomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 filling	obj
31	till	till	ADP	_	32 night	case
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 filling	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive		water	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the mother				tree rules
4	break	past	the morning					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	give	past		twelve buffalo skins	things = thing		with the order	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient skin=Theme
6	keep	to-infinitive						tree rules
7	fill	gerund		things = thing		night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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