The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 69

But before they drank they all rubbed themselves against her knees and purred by way of thanks.

Who acts: pussies · What happens: drink, rub, purr · To what, where: pussies, knees

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pussies), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 rubbed	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 drank	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rubbed	advcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rubbed	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 they	det
7	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 rubbed	obj
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 knees	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knees	nmod:poss
11	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rubbed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 purred	cc
13	purred	purr	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rubbed	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 way	case
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 purred	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 thanks	case
17	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	past	pussies = pussy				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rub	past	pussies = pussy	pussies = pussy	cow's knees		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme against knee=Destination
3	purr	participle	pussies = pussy not said here			by way of thanks	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=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 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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