The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 79
But take some of the water that I am boiled in, and put it in a bottle and lay it on one side.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, boil, put, lay · To what, where: some, water, bottle, one side
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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 take | cc |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 take | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 some | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 boiled | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 boiled | aux:pass |
| 10 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 water | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 boiled | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bottle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bottle | det |
| 18 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lay | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 side | nummod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | some | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boil | present · passive | the water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | you not said here | water | a bottle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bottle=Destination | |||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | you not said here | water | one side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=Destination |
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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