The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 47
Away flew the factor, while another dinner was providing, and returned with the cat just as the rats and mice were devouring that also.
Who acts: dinner, rats · What happens: fly, provide, return, devour · To what, where: factor, that
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner, rats), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 factor | det |
| 4 | factor | factor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 providing | punct |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 providing | mark |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 dinner | det |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 providing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 providing | aux |
| 10 | providing | provide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 flew | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cat | det |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 devouring | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 devouring | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rats | det |
| 20 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 devouring | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mice | cc |
| 22 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rats | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 devouring | aux |
| 24 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 returned | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 devouring | obj |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 devouring | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the factor | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location factor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | provide | past · progressive | another dinner | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | return | past | with the cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | devour | past · progressive | the rats and mice | that | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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