--- title: The stuff in the cauldron boiled up in foaming flashes of yellow and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The stuff in the cauldron boiled up in foaming flashes of yellow and blue and red and white and silver, and sent out a sweet scent, and presently the witch poured it out into a pot and set it to cool in the doorway among the snakes. Who acts: foaming flashes, stuff. A sentence of «The Book of Dragon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/96/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/) / 96 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 96 The stuff in the cauldron boiled up in foaming flashes of yellow and blue and red and white and silver, and sent out a sweet scent, and presently the witch poured it out into a pot and set it to cool in the doorway among the snakes. **Who acts:** foaming flashes, stuff · **What happens:** boil up, send out, pour out, set, cool · **To what, where:** cauldron, yellow, scent, pot, stuff, doorway This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foaming flashes, stuff), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg23661:9:96 # text = The stuff in the cauldron boiled up in foaming flashes of yellow and blue and red and white and silver, and sent out a sweet scent, and presently the witch poured it out into a pot and set it to cool in the doorway among the snakes. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cauldron cauldron NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 foaming foaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 flashes flash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 of of SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 12 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 presently presently ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 doorway doorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 among among ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boil up** | participle | | the cauldron *not said here* | | | | in foaming flashes | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in flash=Instrument | | 2 | **send out** | participle · passive | foaming flashes *not said here* | yellow | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination scent=Theme | | 3 | **pour out** | past | the stuff in the cauldron | scent | | a pot | | presently *property* | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into pot=Destination | | 4 | **set** | infinitive | the stuff in the cauldron *not said here* | stuff | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | | 5 | **cool** | to-infinitive | the stuff in the cauldron *not said here* | | | the doorway | | among the snakes | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/97/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/)