The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 135
The daughter came back then and put in the meal, and after it had boiled a little she took it in to her mother.
Who acts: daughter, Witch · What happens: come back, put, boil, take in · To what, where: meal, mother
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 (daughter, Witch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 meal | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meal | det |
| 10 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 boiled | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 boiled | aux |
| 16 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 took | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boiled | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 mother | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the daughter | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the daughter not said here | the meal | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in meal=Destination | ||||
| 3 | boil | past · perfect · passive | meal | a little obl:unmarked | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take in | past | Witch | meal | Witch's mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mother=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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