The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 80

When everything was ready, and the water in the pot was getting hot, he popped him in, and waited till he thought the salmon was nearly boiled.

Who acts: everything, water, fox · What happens: be, get, pop, wait, think, boil · To what, where: fox, salmon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, water, fox), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ready	advmod
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 getting	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 getting	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 getting	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pot	det
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 getting	aux
13	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ready	conj
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 getting	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 popped	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 popped	nsubj
17	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 popped	obj
19	in	in	ADV	_	17 popped	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 waited	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 waited	cc
22	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 popped	conj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 thought	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 waited	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 salmon	det
27	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 boiled	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 boiled	aux:pass
29	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	30 boiled	advmod
30	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 thought	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	everything		ready property	tree rules
2	get	past · progressive	the water in the pot		hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	pop	past	water	fox		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	wait	past	water not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	fox			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	boil	past · passive		the salmon	nearly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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