The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 46

The dwarf took no notice, but waited patiently till the dinner was cooked, then suddenly throwing Tree Comber on the ground, he ate up the contents of the saucepan and vanished.

Who acts: dwarf, Comber · What happens: take, wait, cook, throw, eat up, vanish · To what, where: notice, dinner, Tree Comber, ground, contents

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, Comber), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarf	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 notice	det
5	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 waited	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 waited	cc
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	8 waited	advmod
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 cooked	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dinner	det
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cooked	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cooked	aux:pass
14	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 waited	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 throwing	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 throwing	advmod
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 throwing	advmod
18	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cooked	advcl
19	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Comber	compound
20	Comber	comber	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throwing	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throwing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ate	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ate	nsubj
26	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 ate	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 contents	det
29	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 ate	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 saucepan	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 saucepan	det
32	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 contents	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 vanished	cc
34	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ate	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the dwarf	no notice				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
2	wait	past	the dwarf not said here				patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cook	past · passive		the dinner				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	throw	gerund		Tree Comber	the ground	then	suddenly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent comber=Theme on ground=Destination
5	eat up	past	Comber	the contents of the saucepan				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Patient
6	vanish	past	Comber not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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