The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 65

Crush them together and boil them in a large tub of water, and then put me into it.”

Who acts: you · What happens: crush, boil, put · To what, where: flowers, me, water

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Crush	crush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Crush	obj
3	together	together	ADV	_	1 Crush	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 boil	cc
5	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Crush	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boil	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 tub	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tub	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tub	amod
10	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boil	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tub	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 put	advmod
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Crush	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 put	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Crush	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Crush	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	imperative	you not said here	flowers = flower				together property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	boil	present	you not said here	flowers = flower				in a large tub of water	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in tub=Instrument
3	put	infinitive	you not said here		me	water	then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal

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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