The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 32

She prepared a drink, and when it was ready she poured it in a goblet and gave it to the maiden, who had to hand it to the hunter.

Who acts: witch, drink · What happens: prepare, be, pour, give, have, hand · To what, where: drink, goblet, maiden, hunter

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, drink), 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 prepared	nsubj
2	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prepared	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ready	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ready	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 ready	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ready	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ready	cop
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prepared	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 poured	nsubj
12	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ready	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 poured	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 goblet	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 goblet	det
16	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poured	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 poured	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 maiden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 maiden	det
22	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gave	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 maiden	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 hand	mark
27	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hand	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 hunter	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hunter	det
31	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hand	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	prepare	past	witch	a drink				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
2	is	past	drink				ready property	tree rules
3	pour	past	witch	drink		a goblet		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	give	past	witch not said here	drink	the maiden			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to maiden=Recipient
5	have	past						tree rules
6	hand	to-infinitive		drink		the hunter		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to hunter=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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