Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 60

He stretched his thin neck, and took one of the tempting morsels in his mouth.

Who acts: horse · What happens: stretch, take · To what, where: thin neck, one

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 neck	nmod:poss
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 neck	amod
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stretched	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 took	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 morsels	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morsels	det
12	tempting	tempting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 morsels	compound
13	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 morsels	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	horse	horse's thin neck					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
2	take	past	horse not said here	one of the tempting morsels in horse's mouth					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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