The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 108
He drew water from the well and carried it to the house for her, kindled the fire under the iron pot, and, in fact, did everything that came into his head that could be of any use to her.
Who acts: door, fact, head · What happens: draw, carry, kindle, do, come, be · To what, where: water, well, house, fire, iron pot, everything
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, fact, head), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 well | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 well | det |
| 6 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kindled | punct |
| 16 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fire | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kindled | obj |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pot | compound |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kindled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 did | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 did | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fact | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 fact | case |
| 27 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 did | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fact | punct |
| 29 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 did | obj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 everything | acl:relcl |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 use | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 use | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 use | cop |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 use | case |
| 40 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 use | det |
| 41 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 head | acl:relcl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 her | case |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 use | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | door | water | the well | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | carry | past | door not said here | well | the house | for girl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to house=Destination | ||
| 3 | kindle | past | door not said here | the fire | the iron pot | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | |||
| 4 | do | past | fact | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | come | past | door's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | is | could | door's head | girl | of any use | 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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