The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 75

But no sooner had she tasted it than she put her spoon down, and declared that her daughter must have been meddling with it, for it was impossible to eat anything that was all made of salt.

Who acts: witch, daughter · What happens: have, taste, put down, declare, meddle, be · To what, where: pot, spoon, anything

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 (witch, daughter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 tasted	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tasted	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tasted	nsubj
6	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tasted	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 put	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tasted	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 spoon	nmod:poss
12	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
13	down	down	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 declared	cc
16	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tasted	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 meddling	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meddling	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 meddling	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 meddling	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 meddling	aux
23	meddling	meddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 declared	advcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 meddling	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 impossible	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 impossible	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 impossible	expl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 impossible	cop
30	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 meddling	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 impossible	xcomp
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 eat	obj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 made	obl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 made	aux:pass
36	all	all	ADV	_	37 made	advmod
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 anything	acl:relcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 salt	case
39	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	witch not said here		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	taste	past	witch	pot		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
3	put down	past	witch	witch's spoon	down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spoon=Goal
4	declare speech: other	past	witch not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	meddle	must · perfect · progressive	witch's daughter		with pot	tree rules
6	is	past	witch's daughter not said here		impossible property	tree rules
7	eat	to-infinitive	witch's daughter not said here	anything		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
8	make	past · passive			of salt; all property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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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