The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 74

The eel wagged ‘No’ with her tail, and the queen told her husband to put a drop of water from the pool into a bottle, because it was only by that means that she could seize hold of her daughter.

Who acts: eel, queen, it · What happens: wag, tell, put, mean, seize, hold · To what, where: ’, husband, drop, pool, hold, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See 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 (eel, queen, it), 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	2 eel	det
2	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wagged	nsubj
3	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 ’	punct
5	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 ’	det
6	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wagged	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ’	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 queen	det
13	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wagged	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 put	mark
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drop	det
20	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 water	case
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drop	nmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 pool	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pool	det
25	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 bottle	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bottle	det
28	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 means	punct
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	36 means	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 means	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 means	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	36 means	advmod
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 that	case
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 means	nsubj
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 seize	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 seize	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 seize	aux
40	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 means	ccomp
41	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 seize	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 daughter	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 daughter	nmod:poss
44	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hold	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wagged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wag	past	the eel	no ’ with eel's tail				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the queen		eel's husband			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic
3	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	a drop of water		the pool	into a bottle	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent drop=Goal
4	mean	present	it					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	seize	could	queen	hold of eel's daughter				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
6	hold			eel's daughter				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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