More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 29
Scrapefoot was very thirsty, and he began to drink out of the big saucer.
Who acts: Scrapefoot · What happens: be, begin, drink out · To what, where: big saucer
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (Scrapefoot), 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 | Scrapefoot | Scrapefoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thirsty | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thirsty | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 thirsty | advmod |
| 4 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thirsty | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 drink | mark |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 saucer | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 saucer | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 saucer | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saucer | amod |
| 15 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirsty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Scrapefoot | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Scrapefoot | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | drink out | to-infinitive | Scrapefoot not said here | the big saucer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucer=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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