The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 58
Then Pinkel hastily poured all the contents of the bowl into his bag, and make a great noise with his spoon, as if he was scraping up the last morsel.
Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: pour, make, scrape up · To what, where: contents, bag, great noise, last morsel
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 poured | advmod |
| 2 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 poured | nsubj |
| 3 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 poured | advmod |
| 4 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 contents | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 contents | det |
| 7 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 poured | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bowl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bowl | det |
| 10 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contents | nmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bag | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poured | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 poured | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 noise | amod |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 spoon | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 spoon | nmod:poss |
| 22 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 scraping | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 scraping | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 scraping | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 scraping | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 scraping | aux |
| 28 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 make | advcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 scraping | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 morsel | det |
| 31 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 morsel | amod |
| 32 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 scraping | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | Pinkel | all contents of the bowl | Pinkel's bag | then | hastily property | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme into bag=Destination | |
| 2 | make | infinitive | Pinkel not said here | a great noise | with Pinkel's spoon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||
| 3 | scrape up | past · progressive | Pinkel | the last morsel | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=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 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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