The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 69
The daughter then made the oven as hot as could be, and took Esben out of his prison in order to roast him.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: make, take, roast · To what, where: oven, Esben, prison, property
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 (daughter), 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 | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oven | det |
| 6 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 hot | advmod |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 oven | amod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 15 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 prison | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 prison | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 prison | nmod:poss |
| 19 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 order | case |
| 21 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 roast | mark |
| 23 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 took | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 roast | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the daughter | the oven | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Product | |||
| 2 | take | past | the daughter not said here | Esben | property's prison | in order | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent esben=Theme out prison=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | roast | to-infinitive | the daughter not said here | property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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 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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