The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 46

However, at last the peas were gathered and shelled, and the fire lighted, but then they had to be carefully counted, since the old woman declared that she would cook fifty-four, and no more.

Who acts: fire, peas, old woman, woman · What happens: gather, shell, light, have, count, declare · To what, where: last peas, more, fifty

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (fire, peas, old woman, 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	However	however	ADV	_	8 gathered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 peas	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peas	det
6	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathered	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gathered	aux:pass
8	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shelled	cc
10	shelled	shell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gathered	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lighted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lighted	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lighted	nsubj
15	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gathered	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 had	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lighted	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	24 counted	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 counted	aux:pass
23	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	24 counted	advmod
24	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 had	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 declared	punct
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	30 declared	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 declared	nsubj
30	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 counted	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 cook	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cook	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 cook	aux
34	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 declared	xcomp
35	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 cook	obj
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 four	punct
37	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 fifty	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 more	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 more	cc
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 more	det
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 declared	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past · passive		the last peas		however property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	shell	participle					vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	light	participle	the fire				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	peas = pea		then		tree rules
5	count	to-infinitive · passive	peas = pea not said here			carefully property	vn matter-91 «NP V»
6	declare speech: other	past	the old woman	no more			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent more=Attribute clause=Theme
7	cook	would	woman	fifty			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fifty=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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