The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 106
When this brave deed was done she went back to the kitchen, put out the fire and the lamp, and waited to see what would happen.
Who acts: deed, you · What happens: do, go back, put out, wait, see, happen · To what, where: brave deed, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (deed, you), 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 | 6 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 deed | det |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deed | amod |
| 4 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 put | advcl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | ccomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kitchen | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 back | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lamp | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lamp | det |
| 20 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fire | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waited | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 waited | cc |
| 23 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 waited | advcl |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 happen | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 happen | aux |
| 28 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this brave deed | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | deed | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | put out | imperative | you not said here | the fire and the lamp | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal | ||||
| 4 | wait | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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