The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 18
She got this, and then she requested them to put a pot full of strong lye on the fire and lay down three new scrubbing brushes.
Who acts: girl · What happens: get, request, put, lay down, scrub · To what, where: this, nuts, pot, fire, three new scrubbing brushes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 got | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 requested | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 requested | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 requested | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 requested | nsubj |
| 8 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 requested | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 requested | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pot | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lye | case |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lye | amod |
| 17 | lye | lye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 put | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 lay | advmod |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 brushes | nummod |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brushes | amod |
| 26 | scrubbing | scrub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 brushes | amod |
| 27 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lay | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | girl | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | request | past | girl | nuts = nut | then | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | girl not said here | a pot | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 4 | lay down | infinitive | girl not said here | three new scrubbing brushes | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Result | |||
| 5 | scrub | gerund | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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