The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 42

The prince, who was very tender-hearted, brought some water at once, and pushed it through a hole in the barrel; and as he did so one of the iron hoops burst.

Who acts: prince, iron hoops · What happens: be, bring, push, do, burst · To what, where: water, hole, one

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, iron hoops), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hearted	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hearted	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hearted	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	9 hearted	advmod
7	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hearted	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 tender	punct
9	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prince	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 prince	punct
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pushed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pushed	cc
18	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pushed	obj
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 hole	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hole	det
22	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pushed	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 barrel	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 barrel	det
25	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hole	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 did	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 did	cc
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 did	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 did	nsubj
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	conj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 one	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 did	obj
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 burst	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hoops	det
35	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hoops	compound
36	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 burst	nsubj
37	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 one	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prince			hearted property	tree rules
2	bring	past	the prince	some water			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	push	past	the prince not said here	water	a hole in the barrel		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme through hole=Trajectory
4	do	past	prince	one			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
5	burst	present	the iron hoops				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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