The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 69

So he looked about for a good head and ate it, but no sooner had he swallowed a couple of mouthfuls than he felt very strange, and found himself wonderfully changed.

Who acts: Hunter · What happens: look, eat, swallow, feel, find, change · To what, where: head, couple · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter), 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	_	3 looked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 head	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 head	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 head	amod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ate	cc
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swallowed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 swallowed	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 sooner	det
15	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 swallowed	advmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swallowed	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swallowed	nsubj
18	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 couple	det
20	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swallowed	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 mouthfuls	case
22	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 couple	nmod
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 felt	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 felt	nsubj
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swallowed	advcl
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 strange	advmod
27	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 felt	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 found	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 found	cc
30	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 changed	nsubj
32	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	33 changed	advmod
33	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 found	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Hunter		for a good head; about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for head=Theme
2	eat	past	Hunter not said here	head		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	swallow	past	Hunter	a couple of mouthfuls	soon property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Patient
4	feel	past	Hunter		strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	find	past	Hunter not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	change	past	Hunter		wonderfully property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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