The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 36

But, instead of the gold pieces for which they looked, the rice turned into berries with such a horrible smell that they were obliged to run away, after smashing the mortar in a rage and setting fire to the bits.

Who acts: pieces, gold pieces · What happens: look, turn, oblige, run away, smash, set · To what, where: berries, pieces, mortar, rage, fire

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 (pieces, gold pieces), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pieces	punct
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 pieces	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pieces	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pieces	compound
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turned	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 looked	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pieces	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rice	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rice	det
14	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 berries	case
17	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turned	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 smell	case
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 smell	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 smell	det
21	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 smell	amod
22	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 obliged	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 obliged	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 obliged	aux:pass
26	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 turned	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 run	mark
28	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 obliged	xcomp
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 run	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 smashing	punct
31	after	after	SCONJ	_	32 smashing	mark
32	smashing	smash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 run	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mortar	det
34	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 smashing	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 rage	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 rage	det
37	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 smashing	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 setting	cc
39	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 smashing	conj
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 setting	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 bits	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bits	det
43	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 setting	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	pieces = piece			for the gold pieces	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for which=Theme
2	turn	past	the gold pieces		berries	with such horrible smell	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into berry=Trajectory
3	oblige	past · passive		pieces = piece			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	run away	to-infinitive				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	smash	gerund		the mortar	a rage		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mortar=Theme in rage=Destination
6	set	gerund		fire		to the bits	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result

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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