The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 105

When it boiled she went and poured enough oil into every jar to stifle and kill the robber inside.

Who acts: kettle, Morgiana · What happens: boil, go, pour, stifle, kill · To what, where: enough oil, jar, robber

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 (kettle, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 boiled	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 boiled	nsubj
3	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boiled	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 poured	cc
7	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 oil	amod
9	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poured	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 jar	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poured	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stifle	mark
14	stifle	stifle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 poured	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kill	cc
16	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stifle	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 robber	det
18	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kill	obj
19	inside	inside	ADV	_	16 kill	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 boiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	boil	past	kettle				tree rules
2	go	past	Morgiana				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pour	past	Morgiana not said here	enough oil	every jar		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent oil=Theme into jar=Destination
4	stifle	to-infinitive	Morgiana not said here				vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient
5	kill	infinitive	Morgiana not said here	the robber		inside property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme

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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