The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 54

Then she brought in Ball-Carrier, who, seeing all these preparations, wished that as long as he was in the kettle the water might not really boil, though it would hiss and bubble, and also, that the spirits would turn the water into fat.

Who acts: woman, Ball Carrier, Carrier, water, spirits · What happens: bring, see, wish, be, not boil, hiss · To what, where: Ball Carrier, preparations, that, kettle, water, fat

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, Ball Carrier, Carrier, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 Carrier	case
5	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Carrier	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Carrier	punct
7	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 seeing	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
11	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Carrier	acl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 preparations	det:predet
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 preparations	det
14	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seeing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wished	punct
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 wished	obj
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 wished	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 kettle	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kettle	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kettle	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 kettle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kettle	det
25	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wished	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 boil	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 boil	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 boil	advmod
30	really	really	ADV	_	31 boil	advmod
31	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 kettle	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hiss	punct
33	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 hiss	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hiss	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hiss	aux
36	hiss	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wished	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 bubble	cc
38	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hiss	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 turn	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 turn	cc
41	also	also	ADV	_	47 turn	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 turn	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 turn	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 spirits	det
45	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 turn	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 turn	aux
47	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brought	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 water	det
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 turn	obj
50	into	into	ADP	_	51 fat	case
51	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 turn	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	woman		Ball Carrier	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	see	gerund	Ball Carrier	all preparations				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer preparation=Stimulus
3	wish	past	woman not said here	that			long property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
4	is	past	Carrier		the kettle			tree rules
5	not boil	might	the water	the kettle not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient
6	hiss	would	water					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	turn	would	the spirits	the water	fat			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme into fat=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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