The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 103

Night was falling when the man awoke, and throwing proudly some grains of gold on the table to pay for the wine he had drunk, he tucked the cock comfortably into his basket and set out for home.

Who acts: man, cock · What happens: fall, awake, throw, pay, drink, tuck · To what, where: grains, table, wine, cock, basket

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, cock), 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	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falling	obl:unmarked
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 falling	aux
3	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 awoke	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awoke	nsubj
7	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 falling	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 throwing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 throwing	cc
10	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 falling	conj
11	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	13 grains	advmod
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 grains	det
13	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 throwing	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 gold	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grains	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throwing	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pay	mark
20	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 throwing	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 wine	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wine	det
23	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pay	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drunk	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drunk	aux
26	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 wine	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tucked	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tucked	nsubj
29	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 falling	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cock	det
31	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tucked	obj
32	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	29 tucked	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 basket	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 basket	nmod:poss
35	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tucked	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 set	cc
37	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tucked	conj
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 set	compound:prt
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 home	case
40	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 set	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive				night		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	awake	past	the man					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	gerund		some grains of gold	the table			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on table=Destination
4	pay	to-infinitive					for the wine	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wine=Theme
5	drink	past · perfect	cock	the wine not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
6	tuck	past	cock	the cock	cock's basket		comfortably property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cock=Theme into basket=Destination
7	set out	past	cock not said here				for home	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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