The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 108
Then he took the other kettle off the fire, filled the new one with water, and put it in its place.
Who acts: middle · What happens: take, fill, put · To what, where: other kettle, fire, new one, Kettle, place
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kettle | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kettle | amod |
| 6 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filled | punct |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filled | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 place | nmod:poss |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | middle | the other kettle | the fire | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme off fire=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | fill | past | middle not said here | the new one | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent one=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | middle not said here | Kettle | Kettle's place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=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 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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