The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 103
When all was still the girl made a fire and boiled some water in a pot.
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, make, boil · To what, where: girl, fire, water
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 girl | det |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 girl | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boiled | cc |
| 11 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 made | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boiled | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pot | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pot | det |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boiled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | all girl | still | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | all girl | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | boil | participle | all girl not said here | some water | in a pot | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient in pot=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: «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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