The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 153

I had bitten the youngest boy in the leg, because he took away the bone I was gnawing; a bone for a bone, I thought!

Who acts: I, door · What happens: bite, take away, gnaw, think · To what, where: youngest boy, leg, bone

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 (I, door), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bitten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bitten	aux
3	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bitten	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 leg	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leg	det
9	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bitten	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 took	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bitten	parataxis
14	away	away	ADP	_	13 took	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bone	det
16	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 gnawing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gnawing	aux
19	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 bone	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 bone	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bone	det
22	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 bone	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bone	det
25	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bone	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 bitten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bite	past · perfect	I	the youngest boy	the leg	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Patient in leg=Location
2	take away	past	door	the bone		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	gnaw	past · progressive	I	the bone not said here		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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