The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 3

I put five of them into my coat pocket; and as to the sixth, I made a face as if I would eat him alive.

Who acts: I · What happens: put, make, eat · To what, where: five, coat pocket, face, colonel

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 put	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 five	nmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 pocket	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pocket	nmod:poss
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pocket	compound
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
12	as	as	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 sixth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sixth	det
15	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sixth	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 face	det
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 eat	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 eat	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 eat	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	aux
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eat	obj
27	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eat	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	I	five of arrows	my coat pocket		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent five=Goal
2	make	past	I	a face		to the sixth	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product
3	eat	would	I	colonel		alive property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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