The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 111
The woman had been working hard all day and was very hungry, so she took her biggest spoon and plunged it into the pot.
Who acts: woman · What happens: work, be, take, plunge · To what, where: biggest spoon, spoon, pot
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 (woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 working | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 working | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 working | aux |
| 5 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 working | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 working | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hungry | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 working | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 working | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 spoon | nmod:poss |
| 18 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 spoon | amod |
| 19 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plunged | cc |
| 21 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 plunged | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pot | det |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plunged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · perfect · progressive | the woman | day | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | the woman not said here | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | woman | woman's biggest spoon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plunge | past | woman not said here | spoon | the pot | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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