The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 16

“The mills have only just begun working, and the flour will not be ground till evening, and how can I heat the oven seven times in one night?”

Who acts: flour, poor man · What happens: begin, work, not be, heat · To what, where: mills, ground, oven

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flour, poor man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 begun	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mills	det
3	mills	mill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 begun	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 begun	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 begun	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 begun	advmod
7	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 begun	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ground	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ground	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flour	det
12	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ground	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ground	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 ground	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 ground	cop
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 working	obl
17	till	till	ADP	_	18 evening	case
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ground	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 heat	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 heat	advmod
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 heat	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 heat	nsubj
24	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begun	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 oven	det
26	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heat	obj
27	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heat	obl:unmarked
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 night	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 night	nummod
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heat	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 begun	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the mills		tree rules
2	work in a quote	gerund				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	future	the flour	ground	evening	tree rules
4	heat in a quote	can	the poor man = man	the oven	night; time	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=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 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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