The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 96

The stuff in the cauldron boiled up in foaming flashes of yellow and blue and red and white and silver, and sent out a sweet scent, and presently the witch poured it out into a pot and set it to cool in the doorway among the snakes.

Who acts: foaming flashes, stuff · What happens: boil up, send out, pour out, set, cool · To what, where: cauldron, yellow, scent, pot, stuff, doorway

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 (foaming flashes, stuff), 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 stuff	det
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 poured	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cauldron	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cauldron	det
5	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuff	nmod
6	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cauldron	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 boiled	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 flashes	case
9	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flashes	compound
10	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boiled	obl
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 sent	mark
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sent	nsubj:pass
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blue	cc
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 yellow	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 red	cc
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 yellow	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 white	cc
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 red	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 silver	cc
20	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 red	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sent	cc
23	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 flashes	acl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 sent	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 scent	det
26	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 scent	amod
27	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 poured	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 poured	cc
30	presently	presently	ADV	_	33 poured	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 witch	det
32	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 poured	nsubj
33	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 poured	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	33 poured	compound:prt
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 pot	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pot	det
38	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 poured	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 set	cc
40	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 poured	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 set	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 cool	mark
43	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 set	advcl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 doorway	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 doorway	det
46	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cool	obl
47	among	among	ADP	_	49 snakes	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 snakes	det
49	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 cool	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	boil up	participle		the cauldron not said here		in foaming flashes	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in flash=Instrument
2	send out	participle · passive	foaming flashes not said here	yellow			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination scent=Theme
3	pour out	past	the stuff in the cauldron	scent	a pot	presently property	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into pot=Destination
4	set	infinitive	the stuff in the cauldron not said here	stuff			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
5	cool	to-infinitive	the stuff in the cauldron not said here		the doorway	among the snakes	vn other_cos-45.4 «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: «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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