The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 60

He lifted the syrup out with a spoon, and after spreading it in the sun till it was partly dry, poured it into a small flask of crystal.

Who acts: sun, syrup · What happens: lift out, spread, be, pour · To what, where: syrup, sun, small flask

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, syrup), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 syrup	det
4	syrup	syrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 lifted	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 spoon	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spoon	det
8	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 poured	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 poured	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 spreading	mark
12	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 poured	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spreading	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sun	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spreading	obl
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 dry	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dry	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dry	cop
20	partly	partly	ADV	_	21 dry	advmod
21	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spreading	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spreading	punct
23	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 poured	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 flask	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 flask	det
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flask	amod
28	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 poured	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 crystal	case
30	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flask	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift out	past	sun	the syrup		with a spoon	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syrup=Theme
2	spread	gerund		syrup	the sun		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sun=Destination
3	is	past	syrup			dry, partly property	tree rules
4	pour	past		syrup	a small flask of crystal		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into flask=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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