The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 191

But before they began to climb the mountain the boy ordered his slaves to cook some rice, and they rubbed the stick to make a fire, and when the fire was kindled they cooked the rice and ate it.

Who acts: footprints, boy, slaves · What happens: begin, climb, order, cook, rub, make · To what, where: mountain, slaves, rice, stick, fire

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footprints, boy, slaves), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 began	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 climb	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ordered	nsubj
11	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climb	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 slaves	nmod:poss
13	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ordered	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cook	mark
15	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ordered	xcomp
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rice	det
17	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cook	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rubbed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rubbed	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rubbed	nsubj
21	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stick	det
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rubbed	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 rubbed	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fire	det
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kindled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 kindled	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 kindled	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fire	det
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kindled	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 kindled	aux:pass
34	kindled	kindle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	conj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cooked	nsubj
36	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 kindled	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 rice	det
38	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cooked	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 ate	cc
40	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cooked	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 ate	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	footprints = footprint		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	climb	to-infinitive	footprints = footprint not said here	the mountain	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme
3	order	past	the boy	boy's slaves	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient clause=Topic
4	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy's slaves not said here	some rice	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
5	rub	past	footprints = footprint	the stick	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
6	make	to-infinitive	footprints = footprint not said here	a fire	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
7	kindle	past · passive		the fire	tree rules
8	cook	past	footprints = footprint	the rice	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
9	eat	past	footprints = footprint not said here	rice	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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