The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 99

But without looking at her or thanking her he snatched the honey comb out of her hands and ate it all up—every bit, without offering her a morsel.

Who acts: voice, honey · What happens: look, thank, snatch, comb out, eat up, offer · To what, where: Princess, bit, hands, honey, morsel

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, honey), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 snatched	cc
2	without	without	SCONJ	_	3 looking	mark
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 snatched	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looking	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 thanking	cc
7	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 looking	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thanking	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 snatched	nsubj
10	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 honey	det
12	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comb	nsubj
13	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 snatched	ccomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 hands	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 hands	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 comb	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 snatched	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ate	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 it	det
22	up	up	ADP	_	19 ate	compound:prt
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 bit	punct
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 bit	det
25	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snatched	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 offering	punct
27	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 offering	mark
28	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 snatched	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 offering	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 morsel	det
31	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 offering	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 snatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	voice not said here			at Princess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	thank speech: thank	gerund	voice not said here		Princess		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	snatch	past	voice	every bit			tree rules
4	comb out	infinitive	the honey	Princess's hands			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	eat up	past	voice not said here	honey			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	offer	gerund	voice not said here	a morsel	Princess		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal morsel=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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