The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 81

Here he planted it in a pot, and watered and tended the little plant carefully.

Who acts: man · What happens: plant, water, tend · To what, where: flower, pot, little plant

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 (man), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 planted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 planted	nsubj
3	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 planted	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 watered	cc
10	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 planted	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tended	cc
12	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 watered	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 plant	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plant	amod
15	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tended	obj
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	12 tended	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plant	past	man	flower	a pot; here		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pot=Destination
2	water	past					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	tend	past		the little plant		carefully property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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 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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