The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 97

She approached the ditch, and took a blade of grass and tickled Big Lion’s nose, and his nostrils moved in spite of his efforts to keep them still.

Who acts: last, nostrils · What happens: approach, take, tickle, move, keep, spite · To what, where: ditch, blade, nose, spite, nostrils, efforts

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, nostrils), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 approached	nsubj
2	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ditch	det
4	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 approached	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 approached	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 blade	det
9	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blade	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tickled	cc
13	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
14	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Lion	compound
15	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 nose	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Lion	case
17	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tickled	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moved	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 moved	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nostrils	nmod:poss
21	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 moved	nsubj
22	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 spite	case
24	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moved	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 efforts	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 efforts	nmod:poss
27	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spite	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 keep	mark
29	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 moved	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 keep	obj
31	still	still	ADV	_	29 keep	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	approach	past	last	the ditch			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ditch=Theme
2	take	past		a blade of grass			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Theme
3	tickle	past		Big Lion's nose			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer
4	move	past	lion's nostrils		spite of lion's efforts		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in spite=Trajectory
5	keep	to-infinitive	lion's nostrils not said here	nostrils = nostril		still	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	spite			lion's efforts			nom spite «feeling 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 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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