The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 67

She therefore told her daughter to heat up the big oven while she was away, take Esben out of his prison, and roast him in there before she came back.

Who acts: witch · What happens: tell, heat up, be, take, roast, come back · To what, where: daughter, big oven, Esben, prison, property · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 heat	mark
7	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 heat	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 oven	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 oven	amod
11	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heat	obj
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 away	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 away	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 away	cop
15	away	away	ADV	_	7 heat	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
18	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 prison	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 prison	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 prison	nmod:poss
22	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 roast	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 roast	cc
25	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 roast	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 there	case
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 roast	obl
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 came	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 roast	advcl
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 came	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	witch		witch's daughter		therefore property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	heat up	to-infinitive		the big oven				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=Patient
3	is	past	witch				away property	tree rules
4	take	infinitive		Esben		property's prison		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent esben=Theme out prison=Initial_Location
5	roast	infinitive		property				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient in there=Instrument
6	come back	past	witch					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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