The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 19

Then Duchess Grumbly took up a little hammer and tapped upon the cask twice, and out came at least a thousand crowns.

Who acts: Duchess · What happens: take up, tap, come · To what, where: little hammer, cask, thousand crowns

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duchess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	Grumbly	Grumbly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Duchess	flat
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hammer	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hammer	amod
8	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tapped	cc
10	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 cask	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cask	det
13	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tapped	obl
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 tapped	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
17	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 least	case
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 thousand	nmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 crowns	nummod
23	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	Duchess	a little hammer		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme
2	tap	past	Duchess not said here		the cask		twice property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon cask=Destination
3	come	past	Duchess not said here	thousand crowns			out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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