More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 32

He tried two or three mouthfuls, but it was not nice, and then he left it and went to the little saucer, and the milk in the little saucer was so sweet and so nice that he went on drinking it till it was all gone.

Who acts: Scrapefoot, little, milk · What happens: try, not be, leave, go, be, drink · To what, where: two mouthfuls, little, little 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, little, milk), 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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 mouthfuls	nummod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 three	cc
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 two	conj
6	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nice	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 nice	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nice	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nice	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 nice	advmod
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 left	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	nsubj
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 left	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 saucer	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 saucer	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 saucer	amod
24	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sweet	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sweet	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 milk	det
28	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sweet	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 saucer	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 saucer	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 saucer	amod
32	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 milk	nmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sweet	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 sweet	advmod
35	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 nice	cc
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 nice	advmod
38	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sweet	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 went	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 went	nsubj
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 nice	ccomp
42	on	on	SCONJ	_	43 drinking	mark
43	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 went	advcl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 drinking	obj
45	till	till	SCONJ	_	49 gone	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 gone	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 gone	cop
48	all	all	ADV	_	49 gone	advmod
49	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 went	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Scrapefoot	two mouthfuls				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Eventuality
2	not is	past	little				nice property	tree rules
3	leave	past	Scrapefoot	little		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	go	past	Scrapefoot not said here		the little saucer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to saucer=Initial_Location
5	is	past	the milk in the little saucer				sweet property	tree rules
6	be		the milk in the little saucer not said here					tree rules
7	go	past	Scrapefoot					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	drink	gerund	Scrapefoot not said here	little				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
9	is	past	little				all, gone 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: «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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