English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 35

And he went, and as he was bringing home the water, a raven over his head cried to him to look, and he would see that the water was running out.

Who acts: brother, head, water · What happens: go, bring, cry, look, see, run out · To what, where: water, raven, brother

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, head, water), 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	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bringing	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bringing	cc
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 bringing	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bringing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bringing	aux
9	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 bringing	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bringing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 raven	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 raven	det
15	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bringing	obl
16	over	over	SCONJ	_	19 cried	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	nsubj
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 raven	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cried	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cried	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 running	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 running	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 running	aux
33	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 see	advcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 running	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	brother				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past · progressive	brother	the water		a raven obl; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	brother's head	a raven not said here	brother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent raven=Topic to he=Recipient
4	look	to-infinitive	brother's head not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	would	brother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	run out	past · progressive	the water				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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