The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 63

In an instant Pinkel again emptied the porridge into the bag, and the next minute he rolled on the floor, twisting himself about as if in agony, uttering loud groans the while.

Who acts: next minute, uttering · What happens: empty, roll, twist, utter, groan · To what, where: porridge, instant, floor, Pinkel

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 (next minute, uttering), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 emptied	obl
4	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 instant	appos
5	again	again	ADV	_	6 emptied	advmod
6	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 porridge	det
8	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 emptied	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 bag	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bag	det
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 emptied	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rolled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rolled	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 minute	det
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 minute	amod
16	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rolled	nsubj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rolled	nsubj
18	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 emptied	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 floor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 floor	det
21	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rolled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 twisting	punct
23	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 rolled	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 twisting	obj
25	about	about	ADV	_	23 twisting	advmod
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 agony	case
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 agony	mark
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 agony	case
29	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 twisting	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 uttering	punct
31	uttering	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 groans	csubj
32	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 uttering	xcomp
33	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 twisting	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 while	det
35	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 groans	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 emptied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	empty	past		the porridge	a instant	again	into the bag	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent porridge=Theme into bag=Destination
2	roll	past	the next minute		the floor			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory
3	twist	gerund	the next minute not said here	Pinkel			as agony; about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	utter speech: other	gerund					loud property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	groan	present	uttering			while		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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