The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 75

The king did as he was bid, and was just in the act of drawing the bottle out of the water after he had filled it, when the turtle knocked against and spilt it all.

Who acts: king, act, turtle · What happens: do, bid, be, draw, fill, knock · To what, where: king, act, bottle, water

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 (king, act, turtle), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bid	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	aux:pass
7	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 act	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 act	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 act	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 act	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 act	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 act	det
14	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 drawing	mark
16	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 act	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bottle	det
18	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drawing	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 water	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drawing	obl
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	26 filled	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 filled	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 filled	aux
26	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 filled	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knocked	punct
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 knocked	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 turtle	det
31	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knocked	nsubj
32	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
33	against	against	ADP	_	32 knocked	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spilt	cc
35	spilt	spilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 knocked	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 spilt	obj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 it	det
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the king			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		king		tree rules
3	is	past			the act	tree rules
4	draw	gerund	the act not said here	the bottle	the water	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme out water=Initial_Location
5	fill	past · perfect	king	bottle		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	knock	past	the turtle			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
7	spilt	past	the turtle not said here	bottle		tree rules

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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