The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 99

And taking a long piece of string from her pocket, fastened it into the frog's mouth, like a bit.

Who acts: taking · What happens: take, fasten · To what, where: long piece, pocket, piece

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taking), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 taking	cc
2	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fastened	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 piece	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 piece	amod
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 string	case
7	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 taking	punct
12	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fastened	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 mouth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 frog	det
16	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mouth	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 frog	case
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fastened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bit	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 bit	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bit	det
22	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fastened	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		a long piece of string		wife's pocket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
2	fasten	past	taking	piece				like a bit; into the frog's mouth	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient into mouth=Co-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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