The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 53

She built up the fire, which had got very low, filled the kettle with water, and passing a rope which hung from the ceiling through the handle, swung it over the flames.

Who acts: woman, fire, rope · What happens: build up, get, fill, pass, hang, swing · To what, where: fire, kettle, rope, ceiling, flames

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, fire, rope), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 built	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 got	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fire	acl:relcl
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 low	advmod
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 filled	punct
13	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kettle	det
15	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filled	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 swung	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 swung	cc
20	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 swung	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rope	det
22	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passing	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rope	acl:relcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 ceiling	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ceiling	det
27	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
28	through	through	ADP	_	30 handle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 handle	det
30	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 passing	punct
32	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 swung	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 flames	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 flames	det
36	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 swung	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build up	past	woman	the fire			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fire=Patient
2	get	past · perfect	the fire			low property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	fill	past	woman not said here	the kettle		with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient with water=Instrument
4	pass	gerund		a rope			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rope=Trajectory
5	hang	past	a rope		the ceiling	through the handle	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through handle=Location
6	swing	past	woman not said here	kettle	the flames		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over flame=Trajectory

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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