The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 40

So the first thing he did was to search the house for materials to make an ointment, which he sprinkled plentifully with pepper and then put in his pocket.

Who acts: knave, first thing, ointment · What happens: do, be, make, sprinkle, put · To what, where: first thing, ointment, pocket

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knave, first thing, ointment), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 search	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 search	nsubj:outer
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 search	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 search	mark
9	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 search	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 materials	case
13	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 search	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 search	advcl
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ointment	det
17	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sprinkled	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sprinkled	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sprinkled	nsubj
21	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ointment	acl:relcl
22	plentifully	plentifully	ADV	_	21 sprinkled	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 pepper	case
24	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sprinkled	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 put	advmod
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 pocket	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 pocket	nmod:poss
30	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 search	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	knave	the first thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing				for materials; search property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here	a ointment				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ointment=Product
4	sprinkle	past	a ointment				with pepper; plentifully property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with pepper=Theme
5	put	infinitive	the first thing not said here		knave's pocket	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=Destination

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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