The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 67

At last the broth began to bubble and boil, and she drew off the saucepan and poured its contents into a silver bowl, which she set before Jem.

Who acts: last broth, woman · What happens: begin, draw off, pour, set · To what, where: bubble, saucepan, contents, silver bowl

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last broth, woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 broth	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 broth	det
4	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bubble	mark
7	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 boil	cc
9	boil	boil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bubble	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drew	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drew	nsubj
13	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 saucepan	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 saucepan	det
16	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drew	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 poured	cc
18	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drew	conj
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 contents	nmod:poss
20	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 poured	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 bowl	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bowl	det
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bowl	compound
24	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poured	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 set	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 set	nsubj
28	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bowl	acl:relcl
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 Jem	case
30	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the last broth	bubble and boil			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Eventuality
2	draw off	past	woman	the saucepan			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Theme
3	pour	past	woman not said here	broth's contents	a silver bowl		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme into bowl=Destination
4	set	past	woman	a silver bowl		before Jem	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme before jem=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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