The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 63

She gathered herbs to cook the vegetables in, fetched the wood, and watched the pots on the fire, and always when her eleven brothers returned she had their supper ready for them.

Who acts: sister, eleven brothers · What happens: gather, cook in, fetch, watch, return, have · To what, where: herbs, vegetables, wood, pots, fire, supper

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, eleven brothers), 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 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gathered	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cook	mark
5	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gathered	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vegetables	det
7	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cook	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	5 cook	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fetched	punct
10	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fetched	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 watched	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 watched	cc
15	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gathered	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pots	det
17	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 watched	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watched	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 returned	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 returned	cc
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 returned	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 returned	advmod
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brothers	nmod:poss
26	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 brothers	nummod
27	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 returned	nsubj
28	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 watched	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 returned	ccomp
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 supper	nmod:poss
32	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 had	xcomp
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ready	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	sister	herbs			tree rules
2	cook in	to-infinitive	sister not said here	the vegetables			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient
3	fetch	past	sister not said here	the wood			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4	watch	past		the pots	the fire		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
5	return	past	sister's eleven brothers			always property	tree rules
6	have	past	sister	brothers's supper		ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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 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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