The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 44
Then he took out the roll of tobacco, took a whiff, and gave the old woman some snuff on the back of her hand.
Who acts: other two · What happens: take out, take, give, roll · To what, where: roll, whiff, snuff, old woman, back, 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 (other two), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roll | det |
| 6 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tobacco | case |
| 8 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roll | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 whiff | det |
| 12 | whiff | whiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | iobj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 snuff | det |
| 20 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 back | det |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | other two = two | the roll of tobacco | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | other two = two not said here | a whiff | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whiff=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | other two = two not said here | some snuff | the old woman | the back of woman's hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient snuff=Theme on back=Asset | ||
| 4 | roll | tobacco | nom roll «event transitive»: 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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