The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 39

All round it were little bells, and when the pot boiled they jingled most beautifully and played the old tune--

Who acts: pot, bells · What happens: be, boil, jingle, play · To what, where: old tune

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, bells), 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	ADV	_	6 bells	advmod
2	round	round	ADP	_	6 bells	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bells	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bells	cop
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bells	amod
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 jingled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 jingled	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 boiled	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pot	det
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boiled	nsubj
12	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 jingled	advcl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 jingled	nsubj
14	jingled	jingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bells	parataxis
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 beautifully	advmod
16	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	14 jingled	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 played	cc
18	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 jingled	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tune	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tune	amod
21	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 played	obj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 bells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	pot		round little bells; all property	tree rules
2	boil	past	the pot			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	jingle	past	bells = bell		beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	past	bells = bell not said here	the old tune		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=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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