The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 30
But the man took out his roll of tobacco, lighted a little of it, and then gave her a whiff.
Who acts: man, roll, son · What happens: take out, light, give, roll · To what, where: roll, little, whiff, woman, tobacco
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, roll, son), 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 | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 roll | nmod:poss |
| 7 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tobacco | case |
| 9 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roll | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lighted | punct |
| 11 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 roll | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lighted | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 little | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 gave | advmod |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 whiff | det |
| 22 | whiff | whiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | the man | son's roll of tobacco | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme | ||||
| 2 | light | participle | son's roll of tobacco not said here | a little of tobacco | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the man not said here | a whiff | woman | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient whiff=Theme | ||
| 4 | roll | son | tobacco | nom roll «event transitive»: poss=agent of=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 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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