The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 17

And the beggar took it and carried it to the dust-heap, where he scratched carefully till he found a few grains of corn, which he divided with his gazelle.

Who acts: beggar · What happens: take, carry, scratch, find, divide · To what, where: cage, dust heap, few grains

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 took	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beggar	det
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carried	cc
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 heap	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heap	det
11	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heap	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dust	punct
13	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scratched	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 scratched	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scratched	nsubj
17	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carried	conj
18	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	17 scratched	advmod
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 found	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 scratched	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 grains	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grains	amod
24	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 found	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 corn	case
26	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grains	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 divided	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 divided	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 divided	nsubj
30	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grains	parataxis
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 gazelle	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 gazelle	nmod:poss
33	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 divided	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the beggar	cage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	carry	past	the beggar not said here	cage	the dust heap		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to heap=Destination
3	scratch	past	beggar			carefully property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	beggar	a few grains of corn			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Topic
5	divide	past	beggar	a few grains of corn		with beggar's gazelle	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent which=Patient with gazelle=Instrument

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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