The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 57

“He puts on the baby’s frock upside down, and, one day, I found him trying to feed her with boiling soup, and her mouth was scalded for days after.

Who acts: husband, each · What happens: put, find, try, feed, scald · To what, where: frock upside, husband, two, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, each), 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	_	3 puts	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 puts	nsubj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 upside	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frock	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 baby	case
8	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 upside	compound
9	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obl
10	down	down	ADV	_	3 puts	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 puts	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	obj
20	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 found	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 feed	mark
22	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 trying	xcomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 feed	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 soup	case
25	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 soup	compound
26	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 feed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scalded	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 scalded	cc
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mouth	nmod:poss
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scalded	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 scalded	aux:pass
32	scalded	scald	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 found	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 days	case
34	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 scalded	obl
35	after	after	ADV	_	32 scalded	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 puts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	present	husband			frock upside		down property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on upside=Destination
2	find in a quote	past	each	husband			day		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
3	try in a quote	gerund	husband not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feed not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	husband not said here		two			with boiling soup	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	scald in a quote	past · passive		two's mouth			day	after 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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