The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 57

Now this was just what Peronnik had been hoping for, so he held the bag while the lion opened it carefully and put his head right inside, so that he might get a good mouthful of larks.

Who acts: this, Peronnik, lion · What happens: be, hope, hold, open, put, get · To what, where: bag, head, good mouthful

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 (this, Peronnik, lion), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 this	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hoping	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hoping	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 hoping	aux
9	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 what	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 hoping	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 held	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 held	nsubj
14	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bag	det
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obj
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 opened	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lion	det
19	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opened	nsubj
20	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 held	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 opened	obj
22	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	20 opened	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 opened	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
27	right	right	ADV	_	28 inside	advmod
28	inside	inside	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 get	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 get	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 get	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 get	aux
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mouthful	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mouthful	amod
37	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 get	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 larks	case
39	larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 mouthful	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this			tree rules
2	hope	past · perfect · progressive	Peronnik			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	hold	past	Peronnik	the bag		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
4	open	past	the lion	bag	carefully property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	put	infinitive	the lion not said here	lion's head	inside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
6	get	might	lion	a good mouthful of larks		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouthful=Stimulus

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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