English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 65

And as she went to draw it from the stream, she saw something floating towards the mill-dam, and she called out, “Father! father! draw your dam.

Who acts: princess · What happens: go, draw, see, float, call out · To what, where: water, stream, something, mill dam, Father father, dam · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 draw	mark
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 draw	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 stream	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stream	det
10	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 saw	obj
15	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 something	acl
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 dam	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dam	det
18	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dam	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 mill	punct
20	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 floating	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 called	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	nsubj
24	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 called	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 father	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Father	punct
28	Father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 father	compound
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 Father	punct
30	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 father	punct
32	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 called	advcl
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 dam	nmod:poss
34	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 draw	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	princess			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	draw	to-infinitive	princess not said here	water	the stream	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from stream=Initial_Location
3	see	past	princess	something		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
4	float	gerund			the mill dam	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards dam=Destination
5	call out speech: express	past	princess	Father father		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	draw in a quote	infinitive	princess not said here	your dam		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=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: «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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