The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 95

Then the witch stirred the stuff that was in the cauldron, and, one by one, she threw in the gold crown and the sapphire necklace and the pearl bracelets and the ruby clasps and the diamonds of the little bright shoe buckles, and last of all she threw in the lilies.

Who acts: witch, stuff, one, ruby, diamonds, last · What happens: stir, be, throw, clasp, buckle · To what, where: stuff, cauldron, gold crown, lilies

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, stuff, one, ruby), 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	4 stirred	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stirred	nsubj
4	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stuff	det
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stirred	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cauldron	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cauldron	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cauldron	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cauldron	det
11	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuff	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 threw	nsubj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stirred	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 crown	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crown	det
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 crown	compound
24	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 necklace	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 necklace	det
27	sapphire	sapphire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 necklace	amod
28	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 crown	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bracelets	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bracelets	det
31	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bracelets	compound
32	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 crown	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 clasps	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ruby	det
35	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 clasps	nsubj
36	clasps	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 threw	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 buckles	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 diamonds	det
39	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 buckles	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 shoe	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 shoe	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 shoe	amod
43	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 shoe	amod
44	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 diamonds	nmod
45	buckles	buckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 clasps	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 threw	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 threw	cc
48	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 threw	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 all	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 last	nmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 threw	nsubj
52	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stirred	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 lilies	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 lilies	det
55	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 threw	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stir	past	the witch	the stuff		then	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stuff=Experiencer
2	is	past	the stuff		the cauldron		tree rules
3	throw	past	one by one		the gold crown and the sapphire necklace and the pearl bracelets		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in crown=Destination
4	clasp	present	the ruby				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	buckle	present	the diamonds of the little bright shoe				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	throw	past	last of all		the lilies		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in lily=Destination

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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