The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 110

When her supper time came she stretched the board across two strings which hung from the roof, and set upon it the pot containing a stew that smelt very good.

Who acts: supper time, woman, two strings, pot, stew · What happens: come, stretch, hang, set, contain, smelt · To what, where: board, two strings, roof, pot, stew

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper time, woman, two strings, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 time	nmod:poss
3	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stretched	advcl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stretched	nsubj
7	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 board	det
9	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stretched	obj
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 strings	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 strings	nummod
12	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stretched	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hung	nsubj
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strings	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 roof	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roof	det
17	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 set	cc
20	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stretched	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 set	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pot	det
24	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obj
25	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 pot	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stew	det
27	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 containing	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 smelt	nsubj
29	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stew	acl:relcl
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 smelt	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	woman's supper time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch	past	woman	the board	two strings		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent board=Patient
3	hang	past	two strings		the roof		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	set	infinitive	woman not said here	the pot	roof		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme upon it=Destination
5	contain	gerund	the pot not said here	a stew			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stew=Theme
6	smelt	present	a stew			good property	tree rules

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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