The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 72

Next morning she was rewarded by noticing cracks in the whole five eggs, and by midday two little yellow heads were poking out from the shells.

Who acts: two little yellow heads · What happens: reward, notice, poke out · To what, where: Next morning, cracks, whole five eggs, shells

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two little yellow heads), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rewarded	nsubj:pass
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rewarded	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rewarded	aux:pass
5	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 noticing	mark
7	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 rewarded	advcl
8	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 noticing	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 eggs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eggs	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eggs	amod
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eggs	nummod
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 noticing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 poking	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 poking	cc
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 midday	case
17	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 poking	obl
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 heads	nummod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heads	amod
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heads	amod
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 poking	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 poking	aux
23	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 rewarded	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 poking	compound:prt
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 shells	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shells	det
27	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 poking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rewarded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reward	past · passive		Next morning			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	notice	gerund		cracks	the whole five eggs		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus
3	poke out	past · progressive	two little yellow heads		the shells	by midday	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent by midday=Location

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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