The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 55

And the Goblin put the tongue on the coffee-mill, and how it began to grind!

Who acts: Goblin, tongue · What happens: put, begin, grind · To what, where: tongue, coffee mill

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Goblin, tongue), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 put	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Goblin	det
3	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tongue	det
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 mill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
9	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mill	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 coffee	punct
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 began	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 grind	mark
18	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	the Goblin	the tongue	the coffee mill	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme on mill=Destination
2	begin	past	tongue			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	grind	to-infinitive	tongue not said here			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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