The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 55
So Halfman got down and filled a skin with water, and they drew it up by a rope and drank.
Who acts: Halfman, daughters · What happens: get down, fill, draw up, drink · To what, where: skin
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halfman, daughters), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 filled | cc |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skin | det |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 drew | compound:prt |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 rope | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rope | det |
| 19 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drank | cc |
| 21 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drew | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | Halfman | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | Halfman not said here | a skin | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skin=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | draw up | past | daughters = daughter | skin | by a rope | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | drink | past | daughters = daughter not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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