The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 142

It eats firewood, so that fire spouts out of its mouth.

Who acts: food · What happens: eat · To what, where: firewood, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mouth	punct
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 mouth	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 mouth	mark
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spouts	compound
8	spouts	spout	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mouth	nsubj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	food	firewood		food's mouth			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=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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