English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 14

Then the henwife was rare angry and said to Anne, “Tell your minnie the pot won't boil if the fire's away.”

Who acts: henwife, pot, fire · What happens: be, say, tell, not boil · To what, where: Anne, minnie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henwife, pot, fire), 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	6 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 henwife	det
3	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 angry	amod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Anne	case
10	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Tell	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Tell	punct
13	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 minnie	nmod:poss
15	minnie	minnie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tell	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pot	det
17	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 boil	nsubj
18	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 boil	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 boil	advmod
20	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Tell	ccomp
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 away	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 away	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 away	cop
25	away	away	ADV	_	20 boil	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Tell	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the henwife			then	angry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the henwife not said here		Anne			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to anne=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		your minnie				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent minnie=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not boil in a quote	future	the pot					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the fire				away 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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