The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 86

He bit the bread a second and third time, and each time a piece of gold fell out of his mouth; but the bread remained untouched.

Who acts: lad, piece, bread · What happens: bite, fall, remain · To what, where: bread, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, piece, bread), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 third	cc
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 second	conj
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl:unmarked
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 piece	det
15	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 gold	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 piece	nmod
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bit	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouth	nmod:poss
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 remained	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 remained	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bread	det
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remained	nsubj
27	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bit	conj
28	untouched	untouched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 remained	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	lad	the bread		time		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	fall	past	a piece of gold		lad's mouth	time		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out mouth=Location
3	remain	past	the bread				untouched property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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