The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 9

While he was eating it, however a sudden thought darted into his mind, and he managed to knock over a great pot of water which was hanging in front of the fire, and put it quite out.

Who acts: Gudu, sudden thought, great pot · What happens: eat, dart, manage, knock, hang, put · To what, where: porridge, mind, great pot, front

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu, sudden thought, great pot), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 darted	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	11 darted	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thought	det
9	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thought	amod
10	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 darted	nsubj
11	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 mind	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mind	nmod:poss
14	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 darted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 managed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 managed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 managed	nsubj
18	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 darted	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 knock	mark
20	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 managed	xcomp
21	over	over	ADP	_	24 pot	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pot	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pot	amod
24	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knock	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pot	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 hanging	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hanging	aux
29	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 pot	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 front	case
31	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hanging	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 fire	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fire	det
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 front	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 put	cc
37	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 knock	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 put	obj
39	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 out	advmod
40	out	out	ADV	_	37 put	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 darted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	Gudu	porridge			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	dart	past	a sudden thought		Gudu's mind	however property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mind=Destination
3	manage	past	Gudu				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	knock	to-infinitive	Gudu not said here		a great pot of water		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pot=Location
5	hang	past · progressive	a great pot of water		front of the fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
6	put	infinitive	Gudu not said here	porridge		out property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
7	mind		Gudu				nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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