English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 64
Now the miller's daughter was cooking that day, and needed water for her cooking.
Who acts: daughter, princess · What happens: cook, need · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, princess), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 daughter | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 miller | det |
| 3 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 miller | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooking | aux |
| 7 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooking | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 needed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 needed | cc |
| 12 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooking | conj |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needed | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 cooking | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cooking | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · progressive | the miller's daughter | day | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | need | past | the miller's daughter not said here | water | for princess's cooking | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme | |||
| 3 | cook | princess | nom cooking «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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