The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 14

Then the beardless one got up, threw the flour into the tub, and made a hole in the middle, telling the boy to fetch some water from the river in his two hands, to mix the cake.

Who acts: beardless one · What happens: get up, throw, make, tell, fetch, mix · To what, where: flour, tub, hole, middle, boy, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beardless one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 threw	punct
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flour	det
10	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 tub	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tub	det
13	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hole	det
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hole	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 telling	punct
23	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 made	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 telling	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fetch	mark
27	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 telling	xcomp
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fetch	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 river	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 river	det
32	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fetch	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 hands	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hands	nmod:poss
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 hands	nummod
36	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fetch	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mix	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	39 mix	mark
39	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fetch	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cake	det
41	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mix	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the beardless one				then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	throw	past	the beardless one not said here	the flour				into the tub result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer flour=Theme into tub=Result
3	make	past		a hole		the middle			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
4	tell speech: assert	gerund			the boy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
5	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive		some water		the river		in boy's two hands	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from river=Source
6	mix	to-infinitive		the cake					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=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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