The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 139

Jack lingered behind for a few minutes to put pieces of gold, silver, and copper into his pocket, and to eat the food that his brothers had thrown down in the first room.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: linger, put, eat, throw down · To what, where: copper, pieces, food, first room

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lingered	nsubj
2	lingered	linger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADV	_	2 lingered	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 minutes	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 minutes	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 minutes	amod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lingered	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 put	mark
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lingered	advcl
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 gold	case
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pieces	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 silver	punct
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gold	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 copper	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 copper	cc
17	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lingered	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 pocket	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pocket	nmod:poss
20	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 copper	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 eat	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 lingered	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 food	det
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eat	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 thrown	nsubj:pass
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brothers	nmod:poss
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 thrown	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thrown	aux
31	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 food	acl:relcl
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 thrown	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 room	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 room	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 room	amod
36	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thrown	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lingered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	linger	past	Jack	copper into Jack's pocket		minute	behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	pieces of gold and silver				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal
3	eat	to-infinitive		the food				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	throw down	past · perfect · passive		the food	the first room			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in room=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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