The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 36

As soon as she reached it she began to scrape, and the iron gave way and before two hours had passed she had made a little hole.

Who acts: princess, iron · What happens: reach, begin, scrape, give, pass, make · To what, where: knife, way, two hours, little hole

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, iron), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 reached	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 scrape	mark
10	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 iron	det
14	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	parataxis
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 passed	cc
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 passed	mark
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hours	nummod
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 passed	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 passed	aux
22	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 gave	conj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 passed	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hole	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hole	amod
28	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	princess	knife	soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	begin	past	princess			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	scrape	to-infinitive	princess not said here			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	give	past	the iron	way		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5	pass	past · perfect · passive		two hours		tree rules
6	make	past · perfect	princess	a little hole		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product

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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