The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 65

The witch was sitting by a fire of sticks, stirring something bubbly in a shiny copper cauldron.

Who acts: witch · What happens: sit, stir, fire · To what, where: something, shiny copper cauldron, sticks

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sticks	case
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fire	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stirring	punct
11	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sitting	conj
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 stirring	obj
13	bubbly	bubbly	ADV	_	11 stirring	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 cauldron	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cauldron	det
16	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cauldron	amod
17	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cauldron	compound
18	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stirring	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the witch			by a fire of sticks	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	stir	gerund	the witch not said here	something	a shiny copper cauldron	bubbly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus something=Experiencer
3	fire			sticks			nom fire «event transitive»: of=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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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