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The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 35

The moment he got into his own house he took a great handful of rice, and began to shell off the husks, with the help of his wife.

Who acts: man, moment · What happens: get, take, begin, help · To what, where: moment, own house, great handful, shell, wife

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, moment), 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

detnsubjnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possamodoblnsubjdetamodobjcasenmodpunctccconjmarkobjcasedetoblpunctcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootTheDETmomentNOUNhePRONgotVERBintoADPhisPRONownADJhouseNOUNhePRONtookVERBaDETgreatADJhandfulNOUNofADPriceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbeganVERBtoPARTshellNOUNoffADPtheDEThusksNOUN,PUNCTwithADPtheDEThelpNOUNofADPhisPRONwifeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 momentdet
2momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing10 tooknsubj
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 gotnsubj
4gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 momentacl:relcl
5intointoADP_8 housecase
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 housenmod:poss
7ownownADJDegree=Pos8 houseamod
8househouseNOUNNumber=Sing4 gotobl
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 tooknsubj
10tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 handfuldet
12greatgreatADJDegree=Pos13 handfulamod
13handfulhandfulNOUNNumber=Sing10 tookobj
14ofofADP_15 ricecase
15ricericeNOUNNumber=Sing13 handfulnmod
16,,PUNCT_18 beganpunct
17andandCCONJ_18 begancc
18beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 tookconj
19totoPART_20 shellmark
20shellshellNOUNNumber=Sing18 beganobj
21offoffADP_23 huskscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 husksdet
23huskshuskNOUNNumber=Plur18 beganobl
24,,PUNCT_27 helppunct
25withwithADP_27 helpcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 helpdet
27helphelpNOUNNumber=Sing18 beganobl
28ofofADP_30 wifecase
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 wifenmod:poss
30wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing27 helpnmod
31..PUNCT_10 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastmanthe moment not said hereman's own housevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moment=Stimulus
2takepastthe momenta great handful of ricevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
3beginpastthe moment not said hereshelloff the husks; with the help of man's wifevn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent shell=Eventuality with help=Subeventuality
4helpman's wifenom help «act transitive»: of=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 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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