The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 13

Slipping off his shoes he stole into the hut on tiptoe, and taking from his pocket some food of which the goat was particularly fond, he laid it under his nose.

Who acts: Pinkel, goat · What happens: slip off, steal, take, be, lay · To what, where: shoes, hut, food, pocket, nose

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, goat), 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	Slipping	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stole	csubj
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Slipping	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoes	nmod:poss
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Slipping	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stole	nsubj
6	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stole	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 tiptoe	case
11	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hut	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 taking	cc
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stole	advcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 pocket	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pocket	nmod:poss
17	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obl
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 food	det
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fond	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goat	det
23	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fond	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fond	cop
25	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	26 fond	advmod
26	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 food	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laid	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laid	nsubj
29	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fond	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laid	obj
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 nose	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 nose	nmod:poss
33	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laid	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slip off	gerund		Pinkel's shoes			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
2	steal	past	Pinkel		the hut on tiptoe		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	gerund	Pinkel not said here	some food	Pinkel's pocket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent food=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
4	is	past	the goat			of some food; fond, particularly property	tree rules
5	lay	past	Pinkel	food	Pinkel's nose		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under nose=Destination

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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