The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 68
When the cook was upstairs, she fetched the golden spinning-wheel and put it in the dish so that the soup was poured over it.
Who acts: cook · What happens: be, fetch, put, pour · To what, where: golden spinning wheel, wheel, dish, soup
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 (cook), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fetched | advcl |
| 5 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fetched | nsubj |
| 8 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wheel | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wheel | amod |
| 11 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wheel | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 spinning | punct |
| 13 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fetched | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fetched | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 dish | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dish | det |
| 19 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 poured | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soup | det |
| 23 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 poured | aux:pass |
| 25 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 put | advcl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 poured | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the cook | upstairs property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch | past | cook | the golden spinning wheel | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | cook not said here | wheel | the dish | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in dish=Destination | |||
| 4 | pour | past · passive | the soup | dish | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: 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 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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