The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 140

Snati saw that she was about to attack them, and sprang at her with a red-hot iron from the fire, while Ring kept pouring boiling porridge on her without stopping, and in this way they at last got her killed.

Who acts: Snati, hag, Ring, others · What happens: see, be, attack, spring, keep, pour · To what, where: others, boiling porridge, hag, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Snati, hag, Ring, others), 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	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 about	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 about	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 attack	mark
8	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 attack	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sprang	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sprang	cc
12	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sprang	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	20 iron	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 iron	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hot	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 red	punct
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 iron	amod
20	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sprang	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 fire	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 iron	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kept	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 kept	mark
26	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 kept	nsubj
27	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
28	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 kept	xcomp
29	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 porridge	amod
30	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pouring	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pouring	obj
33	without	without	SCONJ	_	34 stopping	mark
34	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 pouring	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 got	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 got	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 way	case
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 got	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 got	nsubj
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 last	case
42	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 they	nmod
43	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 got	obj
45	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 got	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Snati				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	hag			about property	tree rules
3	attack	to-infinitive	hag not said here	others = other			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	spring	past	Snati not said here			at hag; with a hot iron from the fire	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory
5	keep	past	Ring				tree rules
6	pour	gerund	Ring not said here	boiling porridge			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent porridge=Theme her=Destination
7	boil	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	stop	gerund	Ring not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	get	past	others = other	hag	this way		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
10	kill	past	others = other not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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