The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 57

And ladling out a large bowl of porridge, she stirred some poisonous herbs into it, and set about work that had to be done.

Who acts: woman, work · What happens: ladle out, stir, set, have, do · To what, where: large bowl, poisonous herbs

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, work), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 ladling	cc
2	ladling	ladle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stirred	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 ladling	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bowl	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bowl	amod
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ladling	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 porridge	case
8	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bowl	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ladling	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stirred	nsubj
11	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 herbs	det
13	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 herbs	amod
14	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stirred	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stirred	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 set	cc
19	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stirred	advcl
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 work	case
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 work	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	26 done	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 done	aux:pass
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 had	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ladle out	gerund	woman not said here	a large bowl of porridge		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme
2	stir	past	woman	some poisonous herbs	into porridge	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herb=Patient into it=Co-Patient
3	set	infinitive	woman not said here		about work	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about work=Destination
4	have	past	work			tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive · passive	work not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»

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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