The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 64

When it was well scalded she hung it round the poor girl’s shoulder, and giving her an axe, she bade her break a hole in the frozen river, and rinse the yarn in it.

Who acts: woman · What happens: scald, hang, give, bade, break, freeze · To what, where: yarn, axe, woman, mother, hole, frozen river

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	5 scalded	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scalded	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scalded	aux:pass
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 scalded	advmod
5	scalded	scald	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hung	advcl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hung	nsubj
7	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hung	obj
9	round	round	ADP	_	14 shoulder	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shoulder	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 girl	case
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hung	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 giving	cc
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hung	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 giving	iobj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 axe	det
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bade	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bade	nsubj
23	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hung	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bade	obj
25	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bade	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hole	det
27	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 break	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 river	det
30	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 river	amod
31	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hole	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rinse	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rinse	cc
34	rinse	rinse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 break	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 yarn	det
36	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rinse	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rinse	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	scald	past · passive		yarn			well property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	hang	past	woman	yarn			round the poor girl's shoulder	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	give	gerund	woman not said here	a axe	woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient axe=Theme
4	bade	past	woman	mother				tree rules
5	break	infinitive	woman not said here	a hole		the frozen river		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Patient
6	freeze	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	rinse	infinitive	woman not said here	the yarn		yarn		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent yarn=Source

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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