The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 13

Why had no one ever given it that before, and so absorbed was the little beast, sniffing about after a few more crumbs, that it never heard Peronnik creep up till it felt the halter on its neck and the rope round its feet, and--in another moment--some one on its back.

Who acts: absorbed little beast, bread, Peronnik · What happens: give, absorb, be, sniff, not hear, creep up · To what, where: one, absorbed little beast, halter, neck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (absorbed little beast, bread, Peronnik), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 given	advmod
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj:pass
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 given	advmod
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 before	mark
9	before	before	ADV	_	6 given	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beast	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beast	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 absorbed	advmod
13	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 beast	amod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beast	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beast	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beast	amod
17	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sniffing	punct
19	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 beast	acl
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 sniffing	advmod
21	after	after	ADP	_	25 crumbs	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 crumbs	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 crumbs	amod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 crumbs	amod
25	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sniffing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 heard	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 heard	advmod
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	parataxis
31	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 creep	nsubj
32	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	ccomp
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 creep	compound:prt
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 felt	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 felt	nsubj
36	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 halter	det
38	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 felt	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 neck	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 neck	nmod:poss
41	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 felt	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rope	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 rope	det
44	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 neck	conj
45	round	round	ADP	_	47 feet	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 feet	nmod:poss
47	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 felt	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 and	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heard	cc
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	49 and	punct
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 moment	case
52	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	53 moment	det
53	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 and	obl
54	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 one	punct
55	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	56 one	det
56	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 moment	appos
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 back	case
58	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 back	nmod:poss
59	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 one	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect · passive		no one		ever	before property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Theme
2	absorb	participle						vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal
3	is a	past		the absorbed little beast				tree rules
4	sniff	gerund	the absorbed little beast not said here			after a few more crumbs	about property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not hear	past	bread					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	creep up	present	Peronnik					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	feel	past	bread	the halter	bread's neck and the rope		round bread's feet	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent halter=Theme on neck=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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