The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 125
The next day she told Helena to empty a pond near the house with a spoon which was full of holes.
Who acts: HELENA, spoon · What happens: tell, empty, be · To what, where: Helena, pond, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HELENA, spoon), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 empty | mark |
| 8 | empty | empty | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pond | det |
| 10 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 empty | obj |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 empty | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 spoon | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 spoon | det |
| 16 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 empty | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 full | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 full | cop |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spoon | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 holes | case |
| 21 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | HELENA | Helena | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent helena=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | empty not said to happen | to-infinitive | HELENA not said here | a pond | the house | with a spoon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pond=Patient with spoon=Instrument | ||
| 3 | is | past | a spoon | of holes; full property | 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 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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