The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 10

A cauldron was hanging from the walls; it was boiling, but the Prince could see no fire under it.

Who acts: cauldron, Prince · What happens: hang, boil, see · To what, where: walls, fire, cauldron

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cauldron, Prince), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cauldron	det
2	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hanging	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hanging	aux
4	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hanging	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 boiling	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 boiling	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boiling	aux
11	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hanging	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hanging	advcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hanging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hang	past · progressive	a cauldron		the walls	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	boil	past · progressive	cauldron			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	see	could	the Prince	no fire	cauldron	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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