The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 43

She took out her chest of gold, and flung a handful of it or so into the fire, and the gold boiled up and poured out over the whole of the hut, until every part of it both inside and out was gilded.

Who acts: maid, gold · What happens: take out, fling, boil up, pour out, gild · To what, where: chest, handful, fire, whole

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, gold), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chest	nmod:poss
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chest	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flung	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flung	cc
10	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 handful	det
12	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flung	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 handful	nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 so	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	10 flung	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flung	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 boiled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 boiled	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gold	det
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boiled	nsubj
24	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 boiled	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 poured	cc
27	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 boiled	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 poured	compound:prt
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 whole	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 whole	det
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 poured	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 hut	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hut	det
34	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 whole	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 part	punct
36	until	until	ADP	_	38 part	case
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 part	det
38	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 poured	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 part	nmod
41	both	both	ADV	_	42 inside	advmod
42	inside	inside	ADV	_	46 gilded	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 out	cc
44	out	out	ADV	_	42 inside	conj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 gilded	aux:pass
46	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 poured	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take out	past	maid	maid's chest of gold			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme
2	fling	past	maid not said here	a handful of handful	the fire		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme into fire=Destination
3	boil up	participle	the gold				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	pour out	participle	the gold not said here		the whole		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over whole=Location
5	gild	past · passive	the gold not said here			inside property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»

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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