Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3, sentence 33

He put it in a little pot and a little water in it, and laid it on the fire until the water was boiling, and then he took a cup, filled it half up with the juice, and put it to his own mouth.

Who acts: herb, water · What happens: put, lay, boil, take, fill · To what, where: stalk, little pot, fire, cup

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herb, water), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 pot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pot	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pot	amod
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 water	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 water	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pot	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 water	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laid	cc
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laid	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 boiling	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 boiling	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 boiling	aux
25	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 laid	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 took	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 took	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cup	det
32	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 filled	punct
34	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 filled	obj
36	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	37 up	advmod
37	up	up	ADV	_	34 filled	advmod
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 juice	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 juice	det
40	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 filled	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 put	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 put	cc
43	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 took	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 put	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 mouth	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 mouth	nmod:poss
47	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 mouth	amod
48	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 put	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	herb	stalk	a little pot and a little water in stalk			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pot=Destination
2	lay	past	herb not said here	stalk	the fire			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination
3	boil	past · progressive	the water					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	take	past	herb	a cup		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
5	fill	past	herb not said here	stalk			with the juice	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with juice=Instrument
6	put	infinitive	herb not said here	stalk			to herb's own mouth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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