The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 76

She seated herself on the oven spade, but no sooner had she done so than Esben laid hold of it, shot her into the oven, and fastened the door of it.

Who acts: Esben · What happens: seat, do, lay, shoot, fasten, hold · To what, where: Esben, oven spade, hold, oven, door

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 (Esben), 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	2 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 seated	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 spade	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spade	det
6	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spade	compound
7	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 done	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 sooner	det
11	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 done	advmod
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seated	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 laid	advmod
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 laid	mark
17	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 laid	nsubj
18	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	advcl
19	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laid	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hold	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shot	punct
23	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shot	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 oven	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 oven	det
27	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shot	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fastened	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fastened	cc
30	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shot	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fastened	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 door	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	Esben	Esben	the oven spade		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value
2	do	past · perfect	Esben			soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past	Esben	hold of hold			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
4	shoot	past		Esben	the oven		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into oven=Destination
5	fasten	past		the door of hold			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
6	hold			hold			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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