The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 58
He found there a little old woman busily occupied in filling great barrels with water.
Who acts: sun · What happens: find, fill · To what, where: great barrels
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 found | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occupied | nsubj |
| 8 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 9 occupied | advmod |
| 9 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 filling | mark |
| 11 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 occupied | advcl |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 barrels | amod |
| 13 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 filling | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filling | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | sun | there | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fill | gerund | sun not said here | great barrels | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient with water=Instrument |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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