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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 34

Now, since he had been left to himself, Jack had grown ambitious, so, after a moment's hesitation, he took the cornet and gave the table in exchange.

Who acts: Jack, moment · What happens: leave, grow, take, give, hesitate · To what, where: trick, cornet, table, exchange

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, moment), 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

advmodpunctmarknsubjauxaux:passadvclcaseoblpunctnsubjauxxcomppunctadvmodpunctcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjccconjdetobjcaseoblpunctrootNowADV,PUNCTsinceSCONJhePRONhadAUXbeenAUXleftVERBtoADPhimselfPRON,PUNCTJackPROPNhadAUXgrownVERBambitiousADJ,PUNCTsoADV,PUNCTafterADPaDETmomentNOUN'sPARThesitationNOUN,PUNCThePRONtookVERBtheDETcornetNOUNandCCONJgaveVERBtheDETtableNOUNinADPexchangeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem13 grownadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3sincesinceSCONJ_7 leftmark
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 leftnsubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 leftaux
6beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 leftaux:pass
7leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 grownadvcl
8totoADP_9 himselfcase
9himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes7 leftobl
10,,PUNCT_7 leftpunct
11JackJackPROPNNumber=Sing13 grownnsubj
12hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 grownaux
13growngrowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
14ambitiousambitiousADJDegree=Pos13 grownxcomp
15,,PUNCT_16 sopunct
16sosoADV_13 grownadvmod
17,,PUNCT_22 hesitationpunct
18afterafterADP_22 hesitationcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 momentdet
20momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing22 hesitationnmod:poss
21's'sPART_20 momentcase
22hesitationhesitationNOUNNumber=Sing13 grownobl
23,,PUNCT_25 tookpunct
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 tooknsubj
25tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 grownparataxis
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 cornetdet
27cornetcornetNOUNNumber=Sing25 tookobj
28andandCCONJ_29 gavecc
29gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 tookconj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 tabledet
31tabletableNOUNNumber=Sing29 gaveobj
32ininADP_33 exchangecase
33exchangeexchangeNOUNNumber=Sing29 gaveobl
34..PUNCT_13 grownpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1leavepast · perfect · passivetricktrickvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to himself=Recipient
2growpast · perfectJackafter a moment's hesitation; nowambitious propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3takepastJackthe cornetvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornet=Theme
4givepastJack not said herethe tableexchangevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme
5hesitatea momentnom hesitation «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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