The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 11

The next night there was not only wood and fire, but a piece of meat in the kettle, nearly ready for eating.

Who acts: next night · What happens: not be, eat · To what, where: wood

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next night), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	nsubj
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wood	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 wood	advmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 wood	advmod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fire	cc
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 piece	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 piece	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 piece	det
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 meat	case
16	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 kettle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kettle	det
19	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ready	punct
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	22 ready	advmod
22	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	parataxis
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 eating	mark
24	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 ready	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	the next night	wood and fire but a piece of meat in the kettle					tree rules
2	eat	gerund	the next night not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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