The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 5

The old man ate it greedily and kept the stalk in his hand, and then asked for another and another and another till he had eaten half the basketful.

Who acts: old man · What happens: eat, keep, ask · To what, where: lid, stalk, hand, till

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stalk	det
10	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 asked	advmod
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 another	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 asked	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 another	cc
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 another	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eaten	cc
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 till	det
24	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eaten	nsubj:pass
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eaten	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 eaten	aux
27	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 asked	conj
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 basketful	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 basketful	det
30	basketful	basketful	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eaten	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the old man	lid			greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	keep	past	the old man not said here	the stalk	man's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stalk=Theme in hand=Location
3	ask speech: ask	past				then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past · perfect · passive		another till				tree rules

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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