The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 126

Stan was tired: he could scarcely lift the buckets when they were empty, and he shuddered to think of what would happen when they were full.

Who acts: Stan, buckets · What happens: be, lift, shudder, think, happen · To what, where: buckets · 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 (Stan, buckets), 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	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 lift	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lift	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lift	aux
7	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	8 lift	advmod
8	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tired	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 buckets	det
10	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lift	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 empty	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 empty	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 empty	cop
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lift	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shuddered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shuddered	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shuddered	nsubj
18	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shuddered	xcomp
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 happen	mark
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 happen	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 happen	aux
24	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 think	ccomp
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 full	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 full	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 full	cop
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 happen	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Stan		tired property	tree rules
2	lift	could	Stan	the buckets	scarcely property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme
3	is	past	buckets = bucket		empty property	tree rules
4	shudder	past	Stan			tree rules
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Stan not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	buckets = bucket		full property	tree rules

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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