The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 13

“Ah! well, she has just stolen out for a little,” thought the giant, and he took a spoon, and went off to the cauldron to have a taste; but there was nothing in it but shoe-soles, and rags, and such trumpery as that, and all was boiled up together, so that he could not tell whether it was porridge or milk pottage.

Who acts: maid, giant, taste · What happens: steal out, think, take, go off, have, be · To what, where: giant, spoon, taste, all, porridge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, giant, taste), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 stolen	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Ah	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stolen	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stolen	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 stolen	advmod
9	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 thought	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 stolen	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 little	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stolen	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stolen	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 stolen	punct
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 spoon	det
24	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 went	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 cauldron	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cauldron	det
31	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 have	mark
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 taste	det
35	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 was	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 was	cc
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 was	expl
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 trumpery	cop
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 was	nsubj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 nothing	nmod
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 soles	cc
44	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 soles	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 shoe	punct
46	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 nothing	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 rags	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 rags	cc
49	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 nothing	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 trumpery	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 trumpery	cc
52	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 trumpery	amod
53	trumpery	trumpery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	conj
54	as	as	ADP	_	55 that	case
55	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 trumpery	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 boiled	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 boiled	cc
58	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	60 boiled	nsubj:pass
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 boiled	aux:pass
60	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 trumpery	parataxis
61	up	up	ADP	_	60 boiled	compound:prt
62	together	together	ADV	_	60 boiled	advmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 tell	punct
64	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	69 tell	mark
65	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 so	fixed
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 tell	nsubj
67	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 tell	aux
68	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 tell	advmod
69	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 boiled	conj
70	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	73 porridge	mark
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 porridge	nsubj
72	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 porridge	cop
73	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 tell	ccomp
74	or	or	CCONJ	_	76 pottage	cc
75	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 pottage	compound
76	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 porridge	conj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	steal out in a quote	present · perfect	maid		for a little	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past		the giant		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot giant=Theme
3	take	past	giant	a spoon		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme
4	go off	past	giant not said here		to the cauldron	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
5	have	to-infinitive	giant not said here	a taste		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
6	is	past			as that; trumpery property	tree rules
7	boil up	past · passive		all	together property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
8	not tell speech: assert	could	giant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past	taste	porridge or milk pottage		tree rules

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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