The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 3

Now, after the pot has been hanging some time over the fire, and the broth is nearly cooked, just rake up the log of wood so that some of the ashes fly into the pot.

Who acts: pot, some · What happens: hang, cook, rake up, fly · To what, where: fire, broth, log, pot

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, some), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 hanging	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 hanging	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hanging	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hanging	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 hanging	aux
8	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hanging	obl:unmarked
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hanging	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cooked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cooked	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 broth	det
17	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cooked	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 cooked	aux:pass
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	20 cooked	advmod
20	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hanging	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rake	punct
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 rake	advmod
23	rake	rake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cooked	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 rake	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 log	det
26	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rake	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 wood	case
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 log	nmod
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 fly	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 fly	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 ashes	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ashes	det
34	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 some	nmod
35	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rake	advcl
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 pot	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pot	det
38	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fly	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hanging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present · perfect · progressive	the pot		the fire	now; time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location
2	cook	present · passive		the broth			nearly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	rake up	infinitive		the log of wood				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent log=Initial_Location
4	fly	present	some				into the pot result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pot=Result

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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