The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 58

But the man pulled out his roll of tobacco again, and filled his pipe with some of it, and gave the old woman enough snuff to cover the back of her hand.

Who acts: man, horse · What happens: pull out, fill, give, cover, roll · To what, where: roll, pipe, old woman enough snuff, 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 (man, horse), 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 pulled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 pulled	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 pulled	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 tobacco	case
9	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	nmod
10	again	again	ADV	_	4 pulled	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 filled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 filled	cc
13	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pipe	nmod:poss
15	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 filled	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 some	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 filled	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 some	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 snuff	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 snuff	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snuff	compound
26	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 snuff	amod
27	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cover	mark
29	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 snuff	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 back	det
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cover	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 hand	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hand	nmod:poss
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 back	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	past	the man	horse's roll of tobacco	again		tree rules
2	fill	past	the man not said here	horse's pipe		with some	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient with some=Instrument
3	give	past	the man not said here	the old woman enough snuff			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuff=Theme
4	cover	to-infinitive	the man not said here	the back of woman's hand			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Destination
5	roll		horse	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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