The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 109

No sooner was the water in the kettle getting warm than a strange thing happened, and the man, who was standing by, thought he must be dreaming.

Who acts: kettle, strange thing, man, water · What happens: be, get, happen, stand by, think, dream · To what, where: water, kettle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (kettle, strange thing, man, water), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 water	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 water	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 water	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thought	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kettle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kettle	det
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	nmod
9	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kettle	acl
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 getting	xcomp
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 happened	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 warm	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 man	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 standing	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 standing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 standing	aux
23	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 man	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	23 standing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dreaming	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 dreaming	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 dreaming	aux
30	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 thought	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		no water and the man	the kettle	soon property	tree rules
2	get	gerund	the kettle not said here			warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	happen	past	a strange thing				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand by	past · progressive	the man				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	past	no water and the man				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	dream	must · progressive	water				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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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