The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 60

When I got to the well everything was frozen hard, so in order to draw some water I had to take off my head and break the ice with it.

Who acts: I, water · What happens: get, freeze, draw, have, take off, break · To what, where: everything, head, ice

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, water), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 frozen	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 everything	det
6	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 everything	amod
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 frozen	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frozen	aux:pass
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	xcomp
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 frozen	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 draw	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 draw	advmod
13	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 draw	mark
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	fixed
15	to	to	PART	_	16 draw	mark
16	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 got	parataxis
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 draw	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 take	compound:prt
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 break	cc
27	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 take	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ice	det
29	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 break	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 break	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	freeze	past · passive		everything	hard property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
3	draw	to-infinitive				tree rules
4	have	past	some water			tree rules
5	take off	to-infinitive	some water not said here	my head		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
6	break	infinitive	some water not said here	the ice	with water	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ice=Patient with it=Instrument

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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