The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 75

While the oil was being heated in the great caldron, Jose went to the stables to inquire of his friend the horse if there was no way for him to escape.

Who acts: Jose, way · What happens: heat, go, inquire, be, escape · To what, where: oil, stables, horse

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jose, way), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 heated	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oil	det
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heated	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heated	aux:pass
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 heated	aux:pass
6	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 went	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 caldron	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 caldron	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 caldron	amod
10	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heated	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heated	punct
12	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 stables	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stables	det
16	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 inquire	mark
18	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 friend	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inquire	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horse	det
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inquire	obj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 inquire	advcl
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 escape	mark
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 escape	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 escape	mark
32	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 way	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	heat	past · passive		the oil			in the great caldron	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in caldron=Instrument
2	go	past	Jose			the stables		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
3	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	Jose not said here		the horse		of Jose's friend	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient
4	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no way			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	escape	to-infinitive	Jose					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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