The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 134

‘No, neither will I,’ said the daughter; but while she was away getting the meal Esben slipped out of the oven and emptied the whole bushel of salt into the pot.

Who acts: I, Witch, getting · What happens: say, get, slip out, empty · To what, where: meal, oven, whole bushel, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Witch, getting), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 I	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 I	punct
4	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 I	cc:preconj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 I	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 I	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 I	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 slipped	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 slipped	cc
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 getting	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 getting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 getting	aux
17	away	away	ADV	_	18 getting	advmod
18	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 slipped	csubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meal	det
20	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 getting	obj
21	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 getting	xcomp
22	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 oven	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 oven	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 oven	det
26	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slipped	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 emptied	cc
28	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 slipped	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bushel	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bushel	amod
31	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 emptied	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 salt	case
33	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bushel	nmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 pot	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pot	det
36	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 emptied	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	get	past · progressive	Witch	the meal		away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus
3	slip out	past	getting	the oven			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent oven=Patient
4	empty	past	getting not said here	the whole bushel of salt	the pot		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme into pot=Destination

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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