English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 36

And he was a young man of sense, and seeing the water running out, he took some clay and patched up the holes, so that he brought home enough water to bake a large cake.

Who acts: water, young man · What happens: be, see, run out, take, patch up, bring · To what, where: young man, water, clay, holes, enough water, large cake

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 (water, young man), 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	_	6 man	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sense	case
8	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
11	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 took	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seeing	obj
14	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 seeing	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 running	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 clay	det
20	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 patched	cc
22	patched	patch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 patched	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 holes	det
25	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 patched	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 brought	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 brought	nsubj
30	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 patched	conj
31	home	home	ADV	_	30 brought	advmod
32	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 water	amod
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 bake	mark
35	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 brought	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 cake	det
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cake	amod
38	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bake	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	water	a young man	of sense	tree rules
2	see	gerund	a young man not said here	the water		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
3	run out	gerund	a young man not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	a young man	some clay		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Theme
5	patch up	past	a young man not said here	the holes		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hole=Destination
6	bring	past	water	enough water	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
7	bake	to-infinitive	water not said here	a large cake		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product

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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