Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 30
The pitcher filled with water, and along with it she sank and was drowned.
Who acts: pitcher · What happens: fill, sink, drown · To what, where: pitcher
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pitcher), 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 pitcher | det |
| 2 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pitcher | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sank | cc |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sank | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sank | nsubj |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drowned | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drowned | aux:pass |
| 15 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sank | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | the pitcher not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | the pitcher | along water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drown | past · passive | the pitcher not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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