The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 113

All the others then came to taste the porridge, and thought it nice, but after they had finished it the old hag grew so thirsty that she could stand it no longer, and asked her daughter to go out and bring her some water from the river that ran near by.

Who acts: others, old hag, hag, river · What happens: come, taste, think, finish, grow, stand · To what, where: porridge, daughter, water, hag, river

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, old hag, hag, river), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 others	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 taste	mark
7	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 porridge	det
9	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taste	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thought	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grew	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 grew	cc
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 finished	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 finished	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 finished	aux
20	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 grew	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 finished	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hag	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hag	amod
24	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	nsubj
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 thirsty	advmod
27	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grew	xcomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 stand	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stand	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 stand	aux
31	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thirsty	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stand	obj
33	no	no	ADV	_	34 longer	advmod
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 stand	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 asked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 asked	cc
37	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 grew	conj
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 daughter	nmod:poss
39	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 asked	iobj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 asked	xcomp
42	out	out	ADV	_	41 go	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bring	cc
44	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 go	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 bring	obj
46	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	47 water	det
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bring	obj
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 river	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 river	det
50	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bring	obl
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 ran	nsubj
52	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 river	acl:relcl
53	near	near	ADV	_	52 ran	advmod
54	by	by	ADP	_	53 near	fixed
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	all others				then		tree rules
2	taste	to-infinitive	all others not said here	the porridge					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme porridge=Attribute
3	think speech: other	past	all others not said here	porridge				nice property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	finish	past · perfect	others = other	porridge					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
5	grow	past	the old hag					thirsty property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	could	hag	porridge				long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	ask speech: ask	past	the old hag not said here		hag's daughter				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
8	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old hag not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	bring	infinitive	the old hag not said here	some water	hag	the river			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination water=Theme
10	run	past	the river					near property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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