The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 104
She filled her oil pot, went back to the kitchen, and, having lit her lamp, went again to the oil jar and filled a large kettle full of oil.
Who acts: Morgiana · What happens: fill, go back, have, go · To what, where: oil pot, oil jar, large kettle
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morgiana), 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 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pot | compound |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 kitchen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kitchen | det |
| 11 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 having | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 having | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 having | punct |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 16 | lit | lit | ADP | _ | 18 lamp | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lamp | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | parataxis |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 jar | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jar | det |
| 24 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jar | compound |
| 25 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 filled | cc |
| 27 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 kettle | det |
| 29 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kettle | amod |
| 30 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 filled | obj |
| 31 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kettle | amod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 oil | case |
| 33 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 full | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Morgiana | Morgiana's oil pot | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | Morgiana not said here | to the kitchen result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kitchen=Result | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | Morgiana not said here | lit Morgiana's lamp | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the oil jar | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jar=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | fill | past | a large kettle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient |
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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