The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 70

“Throw it in the pot,” said the old woman, as soon as he had told his story; “put it in that basket, and as soon as the water boils in the pot we will hang it over the fire!”

Who acts: you, old woman, boy, water, we · What happens: throw, say, tell, put, boil, hang · To what, where: start, pot, story, basket, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old woman, boy, water), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Throw	punct
2	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Throw	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Throw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Throw	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Throw	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Throw	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 soon	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Throw	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 told	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 soon	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 story	nmod:poss
21	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Throw	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 basket	case
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 basket	det
28	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hang	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 hang	cc
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 soon	advmod
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 hang	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 boils	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 boils	nsubj
36	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 soon	advcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 pot	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pot	det
39	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 boils	obl
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 hang	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 hang	aux
42	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Throw	parataxis
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 hang	obj
44	over	over	ADP	_	46 fire	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fire	det
46	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hang	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Throw	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw in a quote	imperative	you not said here	start	the pot	soon property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	boy	boy's story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	put in a quote	infinitive		start	that basket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in basket=Destination
5	boil in a quote	present	the water			in the pot	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in pot=Instrument
6	hang in a quote	future	we	start	the fire	soon property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over fire=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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