The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 15
When the cake was ready for baking they put it on the fire, and covered it with hot ashes, till it was cooked through.
Who acts: cake, hands · What happens: be, put, cover, cook through · To what, where: cake, fire
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 (cake, hands), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cake | det |
| 3 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 baking | case |
| 7 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 covered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 covered | cc |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 covered | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 ashes | case |
| 19 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ashes | amod |
| 20 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 covered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cooked | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 cooked | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cooked | aux:pass |
| 25 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 covered | conj |
| 26 | through | through | ADV | _ | 25 cooked | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cake | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past | hands = hand | cake | the fire | for baking | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination | ||
| 3 | cover | past | cake | with hot ashes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with ash=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cook through | past · passive | cake | through property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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