The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 77

Drawing his whistle from his pocket, he blew it loudly, so as to drown the sweet sounds about him, and ate what was left of his bread and bacon to still the craving of the magic fruits.

Who acts: instant · What happens: draw, blow, drown, eat, leave, whistle · To what, where: whistle, pocket, sweet sounds, magic fruits

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 (instant), 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	Drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 ate	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 whistle	nmod:poss
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drawing	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 pocket	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pocket	nmod:poss
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drawing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blew	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blew	nsubj
9	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Drawing	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blew	obj
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	9 blew	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drown	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 drown	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 drown	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drown	mark
16	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Drawing	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sounds	det
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sounds	amod
19	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drown	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sounds	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ate	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ate	cc
24	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 left	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux:pass
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ate	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bread	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bread	nmod:poss
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bacon	cc
32	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bread	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	36 craving	mark
34	still	still	ADV	_	36 craving	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 craving	det
36	craving	craving	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	advcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 fruits	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fruits	det
39	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fruits	compound
40	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 craving	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund		instant's whistle	instant's pocket		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
2	blow	past	instant	whistle		loudly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	drown	to-infinitive		the sweet sounds		about instant	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
4	eat	past					tree rules
5	leave	past · passive				of instant's bread and bacon	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of bread=Destination
6	whistle		instant				nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent
7	crave			the magic fruits			nom craving «feeling transitive»: of=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 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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