The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 53

So at last she took an axe and a tiny earthen bowl, she cut a very small hole in the side of Koumongoé, and out gushed enough milk to fill the bowl.

Who acts: girl · What happens: take, cut, gush, fill · To what, where: axe, small hole, side, milk, bowl

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 So	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 axe	det
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bowl	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bowl	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bowl	amod
11	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bowl	amod
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 axe	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cut	nsubj
15	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hole	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 small	advmod
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hole	amod
19	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hole	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Koumongoé	case
24	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gushed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gushed	cc
27	out	out	ADV	_	28 gushed	advmod
28	gushed	gush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 took	conj
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 milk	advmod
30	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gushed	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fill	mark
32	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 gushed	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bowl	det
34	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fill	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	girl	a axe and a tiny earthen bowl			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	cut	past	girl	a small hole	the side of Koumongoé		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
3	gush	participle	girl not said here	milk		out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=Theme
4	fill	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the bowl			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bowl=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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