The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 25

Over the fire hung a huge cauldron full of boiling pitch, and fastened into the cauldron by iron chains stood a wretched man screaming with agony.

Who acts: wretched man · What happens: hang, fasten, stand, scream · To what, where: huge cauldron, fire, wretched man

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretched man), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cauldron	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cauldron	amod
7	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obj
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cauldron	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pitch	case
10	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pitch	compound
11	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fastened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fastened	cc
14	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 cauldron	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cauldron	det
17	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fastened	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 chains	case
19	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chains	compound
20	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stood	obl
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fastened	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obj
25	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 man	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 agony	case
27	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 screaming	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past		a huge cauldron	the fire		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cauldron=Theme over fire=Destination
2	fasten	past				into the cauldron	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into cauldron=Co-Patient
3	stand	past		a wretched man		by iron chains	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme by chain=Destination
4	scream speech: express	gerund	a wretched man not said here			with agony	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with agony=Theme

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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