The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 14
There, too, a cauldron was hanging from the wall, bubbling and boiling, but there was no fire under this either.
Who acts: cauldron, fire · What happens: hang, be · To what, where: wall, this
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, fire), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 hanging | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hanging | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 hanging | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hanging | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cauldron | det |
| 6 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hanging | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hanging | aux |
| 8 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hanging | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bubbling | punct |
| 13 | bubbling | bubbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 boiling | cc |
| 15 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 was | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hanging | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 was | obl |
| 24 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 was | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past · progressive | a cauldron | the wall and bubbling and boiling; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no fire | this; there | either property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under this=Location |
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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