English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 22
Instantly the spirit left the room, but in another instant he returned with a barrel on his back, and poured its contents over the flower; and again and again he went and came, and poured more and more water, till the floor of the room was ankle-deep.
Who acts: spirit, flower, room · What happens: leave, return, pour, go, come, be · To what, where: room, instant, contents, flower
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit, flower, room), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 instant | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 instant | det |
| 11 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 returned | nsubj |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 barrel | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 barrel | det |
| 16 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 back | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 back | nmod:poss |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 poured | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 poured | cc |
| 22 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 contents | nmod:poss |
| 24 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 poured | obj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 flower | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flower | det |
| 27 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 poured | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 again | cc |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 again | cc |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 again | conj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 went | nsubj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 went | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 poured | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 poured | cc |
| 39 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 poured | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 water | cc |
| 42 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 water | amod |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 more | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 floor | punct |
| 45 | till | till | ADP | _ | 47 floor | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 floor | det |
| 47 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 poured | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 ankle | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 room | det |
| 50 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 ankle | nsubj |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 ankle | cop |
| 52 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 floor | nmod |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 deep | punct |
| 54 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 poured | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the spirit | the room | instantly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | past | spirit | another instant | with a barrel; on spirit's back | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | pour | past | back's contents | the flower | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | flower | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | flower not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pour | past | till the floor | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 7 | is | past | the room | of ankle | 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: «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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