The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 13

She blew up the fire on which she was cooking something in a little pot, and her daughter secretly warned the travellers to be very careful not to eat or drink anything, as the old woman’s brews were apt to be dangerous.

Who acts: woman, daughter, brews · What happens: blow up, cook, warn, be, not eat, drink · To what, where: fire, something, travellers, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, daughter, brews), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 blew	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 cooking	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cooking	nsubj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cooking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cooking	aux
10	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 blew	advcl
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 cooking	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 pot	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pot	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pot	amod
15	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cooking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 warned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 warned	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 warned	nsubj
20	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	21 warned	advmod
21	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 travellers	det
23	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 warned	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	27 careful	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 careful	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 careful	advmod
27	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 warned	ccomp
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 eat	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 eat	mark
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 careful	xcomp
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 drink	cc
32	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 eat	conj
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 drink	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 apt	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 apt	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 woman	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 woman	amod
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brews	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 woman	case
40	brews	brew	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 apt	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 apt	cop
42	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eat	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	45 dangerous	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 dangerous	cop
45	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 apt	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow up	past	woman	the fire		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
2	cook	past · progressive		something	in a little pot	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent something=Patient in pot=Instrument
3	warn speech: warn	past	woman's daughter	the travellers	secretly property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent traveller=Recipient
4	is	to-infinitive			careful property	tree rules
5	not eat	to-infinitive				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	infinitive		anything		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
7	is	past	the old woman's brews		apt property	tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive	the old woman's brews not said here		dangerous property	tree rules

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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