The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 13
Then he filled a flask with water from the well, and vanished swiftly.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: fill, vanish · To what, where: flask, well
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 filled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flask | det |
| 5 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flask | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vanished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 vanished | cc |
| 13 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | conj |
| 14 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 13 vanished | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Petru | a flask | the well | then | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent flask=Patient with water=Instrument | |
| 2 | vanish | past | Petru not said here | swiftly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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