The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 85

When it was ready she could not wait till it was served at the table, but she immediately took a couple of leaves and put them in her mouth.

Who acts: mouth, witch · What happens: be, not wait, serve, take, put · To what, where: mouth, table, couple, leaves

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 (mouth, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ready	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wait	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wait	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 wait	advmod
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 served	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 served	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 served	aux:pass
12	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wait	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 served	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 took	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	20 took	advmod
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wait	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 couple	det
22	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 leaves	case
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 couple	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wait	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 mouth	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mouth	nmod:poss
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	mouth			ready property	tree rules
2	not wait	could	witch				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	serve	past · passive		mouth	the table		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
4	take	past	witch	a couple of leaves		immediately property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme
5	put	infinitive	witch not said here	leaves = leaf	witch's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in mouth=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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