The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 66
They brought the cauldron and the loads of wood, and very soon the King was boiling away.
Who acts: mules, King · What happens: bring, boil away · To what, where: cauldron
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mules, King), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cauldron | det |
| 4 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 loads | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 loads | det |
| 7 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cauldron | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loads | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 boiling | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 boiling | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 boiling | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 boiling | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 boiling | aux |
| 17 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 brought | advcl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 boiling | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | mules = mule | the cauldron and the loads of wood | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cauldron=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boil away | past · progressive | the King | away, soon property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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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