The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 31

Then she was sent into the kitchen, where she carried wood and water, poked the fire, washed vegetables, plucked fowls, swept up the ashes, and did all the dirty work.

Who acts: sun · What happens: send, carry, poke, wash, pluck, sweep up · To what, where: sun, kitchen, wood, fire, ashes, dirty work

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	4 sent	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 carried	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 water	cc
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wood	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 poked	punct
16	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 vegetables	punct
20	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 vegetables	amod
21	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fire	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fowls	punct
23	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fowls	amod
24	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fire	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swept	punct
26	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 poked	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 swept	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ashes	det
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swept	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 did	cc
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carried	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 work	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 work	det
35	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 work	amod
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 did	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	send	past · passive		sun	the kitchen	then	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	carry	past	sun	wood and water			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
3	poke	past	sun not said here	the fire and washed vegetables and plucked fowls			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
4	wash	participle					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pluck	participle					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	sweep up	past	sun not said here	the ashes			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ash=Trajectory
7	do	past	sun not said here	all dirty work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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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