The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 74

Scarcely had he done this when the witch called her daughter and bade her lift the pot off the fire and put the stew into a dish, as it had been cooking quite long enough and she was hungry.

Who acts: Scarcely, witch, pot · What happens: do, call, put, cook, be, lift · To what, where: this, daughter, stew, dish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, witch, pot), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 called	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bade	cc
13	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lift	nmod:poss
15	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pot	det
17	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stew	det
24	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 dish	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dish	det
27	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cooking	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 cooking	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cooking	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cooking	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 cooking	aux
33	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 put	advcl
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 long	advmod
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 cooking	advmod
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 cooking	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hungry	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hungry	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 hungry	cop
40	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cooking	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	Scarcely	this			off the fire	tree rules
2	call	past	the witch		witch's daughter and bade			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient
3	put	infinitive	Scarcely not said here	the stew		a dish		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stew=Goal
4	cook	past · perfect · progressive	pot				enough, long property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	witch				hungry property	tree rules
6	lift		witch					nom lift «act intransitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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