The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 57

The servant knew quite well that her master had forbidden her to do any thing of the kind, but when once the idea was put into her head, she found the smell from the kettle so delicious that she unhooked a long ladle from the wall and plunged it into the kettle.

Who acts: servant · What happens: know, forbid, do, put, find, unhook · To what, where: master, thing, head, smell, kettle, long ladle

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 (servant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 knew	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 forbidden	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forbidden	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 forbidden	aux
10	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forbidden	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 forbidden	xcomp
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 thing	det
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 kind	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kind	det
18	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 put	mark
22	once	once	SCONJ	_	24 idea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 idea	det
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux:pass
26	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 found	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 smell	det
34	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 kettle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 kettle	det
37	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obl
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 delicious	advmod
39	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 found	ccomp
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 unhooked	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 unhooked	nsubj
42	unhooked	unhook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 delicious	advcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 ladle	det
44	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 ladle	amod
45	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 unhooked	obj
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 wall	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 wall	det
48	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ladle	nmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 plunged	cc
50	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 unhooked	conj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 plunged	obj
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 kettle	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 kettle	det
54	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 plunged	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the servant			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	forbid	past · perfect · passive		servant's master			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive		any thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	put	past · passive	servant not said here		servant's head	once the idea	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
5	find	past	servant	the smell	the kettle		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent smell=Theme from kettle=Source
6	unhook	past	servant	a long ladle		from the wall	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ladle=Patient from wall=Co-Patient
7	plunge	past	servant not said here	ladle	the kettle		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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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