The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 25
The following day each man brought every bowl and vessel he could find at home, and Hassebu filled them all with honey.
Who acts: man, Hassebu · What happens: follow, bring, find, fill · To what, where: bowl, home
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Hassebu), 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 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 bowl | det |
| 8 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vessel | cc |
| 10 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bowl | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bowl | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 filled | cc |
| 18 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | nsubj |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 filled | obj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 honey | case |
| 23 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past | each man | every bowl and vessel | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | could | man | every bowl and vessel not said here | home | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme at home=Asset | |||
| 4 | fill | past | Hassebu | bowl | with honey | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with honey=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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