English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 4
The lad went away with the can to the well, and filled it with water, and then came away home again; but the can being broken, the most part of the water had run out before he got back.
Who acts: lad, bit · What happens: go away, fill, come away, break, run out, get back · To what, where: lad, most part
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 (lad, bit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 well | aux |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 filled | cc |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 filled | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 came | advmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 broken | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 broken | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 broken | det |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 broken | aux |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 broken | aux:pass |
| 29 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 run | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 part | det |
| 32 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 part | amod |
| 33 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 run | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 water | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 water | det |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 part | nmod |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 run | aux |
| 38 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 broken | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 run | compound:prt |
| 40 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 42 got | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 got | nsubj |
| 42 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 run | advcl |
| 43 | back | back | ADV | _ | 42 got | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the lad | with the well; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with well=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | the lad not said here | lad | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | come away | past | then; again | away, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | can · passive | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 5 | run out | past · perfect · passive | the most part of the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | get back | past | bit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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