The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 64

So he sat down on a stone and cracked it with his teeth, and then took it out of his mouth to break off the shell.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: sit down, crack, take, break off · To what, where: stone, nut, mouth, shell

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cracked	cc
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cracked	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cracked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 took	advmod
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouth	nmod:poss
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 break	mark
24	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 took	advcl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 break	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shell	det
27	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 break	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Peter		a stone			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
2	crack	past	Peter not said here	nut			with Peter's teeth	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tooth=Instrument
3	take	past	Peter not said here	nut	Peter's mouth	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location
4	break off	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	the shell				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=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 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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