Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 23
Soup was boiling in a large cauldron, and hares and rabbits were roasting on the spit.
Who acts: Soup, hares · What happens: boil, roast
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soup, hares), 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 | Soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boiling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 boiling | aux |
| 3 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cauldron | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cauldron | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cauldron | amod |
| 7 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boiling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 roasting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 roasting | cc |
| 10 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 roasting | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rabbits | cc |
| 12 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hares | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 roasting | aux |
| 14 | roasting | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 boiling | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 spit | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spit | det |
| 17 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roasting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | past · progressive | Soup | in a large cauldron | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in cauldron=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | roast | past · progressive | hares and rabbits | on the spit | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent on spit=Instrument |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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