The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 138

One of us must pour boiling porridge out of the pot on her, and the other punch her with red-hot iron.’

Who acts: One, other · What happens: pour, boil, punch · To what, where: porridge, pot, hag

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 (One, other), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pour	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 us	case
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pour	aux
5	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 pour	xcomp
7	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boiling	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 pot	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pot	det
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boiling	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pot	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 punch	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 punch	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 punch	nsubj
18	punch	punch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pour	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 punch	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 iron	case
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hot	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 red	punct
23	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 iron	amod
24	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 punch	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pour	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 pour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pour	must	One of us				tree rules
2	boil	gerund	One of us not said here	porridge	the pot on hag		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient
3	punch	infinitive	the other	hag		with hot iron	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with iron=Instrument

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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