The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 19
He took one of the apples out of his pocket, and cautiously bit a piece out of it.
Who acts: mind · What happens: take, bite · To what, where: one, piece, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 apples | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 apples | det |
| 6 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apples | nmod | ||
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bit | cc |
| 13 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 14 bit | advmod |
| 14 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 piece | det |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bit | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bit | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mind | one of the apples out mind's pocket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bite | past | a piece | cautiously property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Patient out it=Location |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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