Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 55

Day and night the water in the pot was boiling; there was not a single fire in the whole town of which they did not know what was preparing on it, the chamberlain's as well as the shoemaker's.

Who acts: Day, single fire, dresses · What happens: boil, be, not know, prepare · To what, where: pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, single fire, dresses), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 boiling	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 night	cc
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boiling	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pot	det
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 boiling	aux
10	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 boiling	ccomp
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 fire	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fire	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fire	amod
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 town	amod
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fire	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 know	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 town	acl:relcl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 preparing	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 preparing	aux
30	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 know	ccomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 preparing	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 shoemaker	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 chamberlain	det
35	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shoemaker	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 chamberlain	case
37	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	41 shoemaker	cc
38	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 as	fixed
39	as	as	ADP	_	37 as	fixed
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 shoemaker	det
41	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 preparing	obl
42	's	's	PART	_	41 shoemaker	case
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 boiling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	boil	past · progressive	Day and night			tree rules
2	be	past	a single fire in the whole town	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	dresses = dress		of the whole town	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	prepare	past · progressive		pot	's the chamberlain's shoemaker	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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