The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 40

I ate them two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time.

Who acts: I · What happens: eat, take · To what, where: legs, three loaves

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ate	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 three	cc
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 two	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 mouthful	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouthful	det
9	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 three	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 loaves	nummod
14	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 took	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	I	legs = leg					tree rules
2	take	past	I not said here	three loaves			time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme

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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