The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 51

He set to work at once, and had just got all his vegetables simmering in the pot when the dwarf appeared as before, and asked to have some of the stew.

Who acts: Paul, vegetables, dwarf · What happens: set, work, get, simmer, appear, ask · To what, where: vegetables, some

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, vegetables, dwarf), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 work	mark
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 set	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 work	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 set	parataxis
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 vegetables	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 vegetables	nmod:poss
14	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 got	obj
15	simmering	simmer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 vegetables	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 pot	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pot	det
18	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 simmering	obl
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 appeared	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dwarf	det
21	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appeared	nsubj
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 simmering	advcl
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 before	case
24	before	before	ADV	_	22 appeared	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 asked	xcomp
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 have	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 stew	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stew	det
33	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 some	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	Paul			tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	Paul not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
3	get	past · perfect		Paul's vegetables		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vegetable=Stimulus
4	simmer	gerund	Paul's vegetables not said here		in the pot	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in pot=Instrument
5	appear	past	the dwarf		before property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	Paul not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Paul not said here	some		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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