The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 15

With this it slipped out again, but in the meantime the cook had posted himself at the outer end of the drain with a net, which he threw over it as it came out.

Who acts: pit, net · What happens: slip out, post, throw over, come out · To what, where: cook, meantime, pit

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pit, net), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 slipped	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slipped	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 slipped	compound:prt
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 slipped	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 posted	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 posted	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 meantime	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meantime	det
11	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 posted	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cook	det
13	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 posted	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 posted	aux
15	posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 slipped	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 posted	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
19	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 end	amod
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 posted	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 drain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 drain	det
23	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 end	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 net	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 net	det
26	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drain	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threw	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 threw	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	nsubj
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 net	acl:relcl
31	over	over	ADV	_	30 threw	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	obj
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 threw	advcl
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip out	past	pit			again	with this	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	post	past · perfect · passive		the cook	the meantime	at the outer end of the drain with a net		tree rules
3	throw over	past	a net	pit			over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	come out	past	pit				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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