The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 43

When the sweet-wort was ready they were all, as a matter of course, anxious to taste it, first the Troll himself and then the others; but Minnikin had brewed the wort so strong that they all fell down dead like so many flies as soon as they had drunk any of it.

Who acts: sweet wort, pieces, Minnikin, course · What happens: be, taste, brew, fall down, drink, matter · To what, where: wort, pieces

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet wort, pieces, Minnikin, course), 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	7 ready	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wort	det
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wort	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sweet	punct
5	wort	wort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ready	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ready	cop
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 all	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 all	cop
10	all	all	ADV	_	7 ready	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 matter	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 matter	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 matter	det
14	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ready	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 course	case
16	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 matter	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 anxious	punct
18	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 matter	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 taste	mark
20	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 anxious	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taste	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Troll	punct
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 Troll	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Troll	det
25	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 matter	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	25 Troll	appos
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 others	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 others	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 others	det
30	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 himself	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 brewed	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 brewed	cc
33	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 brewed	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 brewed	aux
35	brewed	brew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 ready	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wort	det
37	wort	wort	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brewed	obj
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 strong	advmod
39	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 brewed	xcomp
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 fell	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 fell	nsubj
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 they	det
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 strong	advcl
44	down	down	ADP	_	43 fell	compound:prt
45	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fell	xcomp
46	like	like	ADP	_	49 flies	case
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 many	advmod
48	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 flies	amod
49	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fell	obl
50	as	as	ADV	_	51 soon	advmod
51	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 fell	advmod
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 drunk	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 drunk	nsubj:pass
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 drunk	aux
55	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 soon	advcl
56	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	55 drunk	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 it	case
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 any	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sweet wort		ready property	tree rules
2	is	past	pieces = piece		all property	tree rules
3	taste	to-infinitive	the sweet wort not said here	wort		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
4	brew	past · perfect	Minnikin	the wort	strong property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wort=Product
5	fall down	past	pieces = piece		like many flies; dead, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drink	past · perfect · passive		pieces = piece		tree rules
7	matter		course			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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