The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 87

Now the servant came into the kitchen, and when she saw the salad standing there ready cooked she was about to carry it up, but on the way, according to her old habit, she tasted it and ate a couple of leaves.

Who acts: servant, salad, witch · What happens: come, see, stand, cook, be, carry up · To what, where: kitchen, salad, way, couple

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 (servant, salad, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 salad	det
14	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 salad	acl
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 standing	advmod
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 standing	xcomp
18	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 ready	xcomp
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 about	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 about	cop
21	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cooked	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 carry	mark
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 about	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 carry	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tasted	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 tasted	cc
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tasted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 habit	punct
32	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 habit	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 according	fixed
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 habit	nmod:poss
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 habit	amod
36	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 way	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 way	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tasted	nsubj
39	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tasted	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ate	cc
42	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 tasted	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 couple	det
44	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ate	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 leaves	case
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 couple	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the servant		the kitchen	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
2	see	past	servant	the salad				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer salad=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	the salad not said here		there		ready property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cook	participle	the salad not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	servant				about property	tree rules
6	carry up	to-infinitive	servant not said here	salad				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	taste	past	witch	salad	the way			vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on way=Location
9	eat	past	witch not said here	a couple of leaves				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=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 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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