The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 74

Chi-dubula-taka grovelled before him, all the while growing smaller and smaller; and when he had become a convenient size Makoma picked him up and put him into the sack beside Chi- eswa-mapiri.

Who acts: Chi dubula taka, taka, convenient size · What happens: grovell, grow, become, pick up, put · To what, where: taka, sack

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chi dubula taka, taka, convenient size), 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	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 taka	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Chi	punct
3	dubula	dubula	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taka	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 dubula	punct
5	taka	taka	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grovelled	nsubj
6	grovelled	grovell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grovelled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grovelled	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 growing	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 growing	det
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 growing	mark
13	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 grovelled	advcl
14	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 growing	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smaller	cc
16	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 smaller	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 become	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 become	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 become	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 become	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 become	aux
22	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 grovelled	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 size	det
24	convenient	convenient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 size	amod
25	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 picked	nsubj
26	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 size	appos
27	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 become	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 picked	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 picked	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 picked	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 sack	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sack	det
35	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
36	beside	beside	ADP	_	41 mapiri	case
37	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 mapiri	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Chi	punct
39	eswa	eswa	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 mapiri	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 eswa	punct
41	mapiri	mapiri	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sack	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grovelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grovell	past	Chi dubula taka				before hero		tree rules
2	grow	gerund	Chi dubula taka not said here					small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past · perfect	taka						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	pick up	past	a convenient size	taka					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
5	put	infinitive	a convenient size not said here		taka	the sack beside Chi eswa mapiri			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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