The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 66
And drawing the flask from his pocket, he poured two or three drops on the wound.
Who acts: king · What happens: draw, pour · To what, where: flask, pocket, two drops, wound
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 (king), 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 | _ | 10 poured | cc |
| 2 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 poured | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flask | det |
| 4 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawing | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 pocket | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawing | obl | ||
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 drawing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 poured | nsubj |
| 10 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 drops | nummod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 three | cc |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 two | conj |
| 14 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 poured | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 wound | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wound | det |
| 17 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poured | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | king not said here | the flask | king's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flask=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pour | past | king | two drops | the wound | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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