More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 127

Then out ran some of the little people and brought in firewood and made a roaring blaze on the hearth, and there they cooked the flesh of the cow--they baked and they boiled, they stewed and they fried.

Who acts: people, cows · What happens: run, bring, make, roar, cook, bake · To what, where: some, firewood, roaring blaze, hearth, flesh

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, cows), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ran	advmod
2	out	out	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 ran	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 some	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 firewood	case
12	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 blaze	det
16	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 blaze	amod
17	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 hearth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hearth	det
20	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cooked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cooked	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 cooked	expl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cooked	nsubj
25	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flesh	det
27	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cooked	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 cow	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cow	det
30	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flesh	nmod
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 baked	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 baked	nsubj
33	baked	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 boiled	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 boiled	nsubj
36	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 baked	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stewed	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stewed	nsubj
39	stewed	stew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fried	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 fried	nsubj
42	fried	fry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 stewed	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past		some		then	out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme some=Trajectory
2	bring	past			firewood			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	make	past		a roaring blaze	the hearth			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blaze=Product
4	roar	gerund						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cook	past	people	the flesh of the cow	there			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
6	bake	past	cows = cow					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	boil	past	cows = cow					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	stew	past	cows = cow					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	fry	past	cows = cow					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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