The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 69

The old woman took the kettle and hung it on a little twig, which broke at once, and the kettle fell to the ground.

Who acts: old woman, little twig, kettle · What happens: take, hang, break, fall · To what, where: kettle, fire, little twig

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, little twig, kettle), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kettle	det
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hung	cc
8	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hung	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 twig	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 twig	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 twig	amod
13	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 broke	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 broke	nsubj
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 twig	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 broke	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kettle	det
22	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the old woman	the kettle			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme
2	hang	past	the old woman not said here	fire	a little twig		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on twig=Destination
3	break	past	a little twig				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
4	fall	past	the kettle			to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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