English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 69
Meanwhile the gardener went down to draw water from the well and saw the shadow of the lady in the water.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: go down, draw, see, shadow · To what, where: water, well, shadow, lady
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gardener | det |
| 3 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 draw | mark |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shadow | det |
| 15 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lady | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shadow | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lady | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the gardener | down, meanwhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | to-infinitive | the gardener not said here | water | the well | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | past | the gardener not said here | the shadow of the lady in the water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shadow | the lady in the water | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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