The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 6

With the first spoonful he took up the ring, and a thrill ran through him; in the second he beheld the feather and rose from his chair.

Who acts: kitchen, thrill · What happens: take up, run, behold, rise · To what, where: ring, feather, chair

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen, thrill), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 spoonful	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spoonful	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 spoonful	amod
4	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thrill	det
13	thrill	thrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 beheld	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 second	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 second	det
20	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beheld	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 beheld	nsubj
22	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 feather	det
24	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beheld	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rose	cc
26	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 beheld	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 chair	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 chair	nmod:poss
29	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rose	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	kitchen	the ring			with the first spoonful	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	run	past	a thrill				through kitchen	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through he=Trajectory
3	behold	past	kitchen	the feather		second		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus
4	rise	past	kitchen not said here		kitchen's chair			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chair=Initial_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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