The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 84

So the eldest sister went and caught him, and he was boiled for supper, but the youngest sister was away in the woods, and did not know anything about it.

Who acts: eldest sister, youngest sister · What happens: go, catch, boil, be, not know · To what, where: fish, woods, anything

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest sister, youngest sister), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 caught	cc
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caught	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boiled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 boiled	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 boiled	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 boiled	aux:pass
13	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 supper	case
15	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boiled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 away	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 away	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sister	det
19	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 sister	amod
20	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 away	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 away	cop
22	away	away	ADV	_	13 boiled	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 woods	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woods	det
25	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 away	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	conj
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 know	obj
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 anything	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the eldest sister				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	the eldest sister not said here	fish			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	boil	past · passive		fish		for supper	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for supper=Beneficiary
4	is	past	the youngest sister		the woods	away property	tree rules
5	not know	past · do-support	the eldest sister not said here	anything		about supper	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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