The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 4

The morning was hot, and at last he put down his spade and wiped his wet forehead, noticing, as he did so, that the animal was snuffling and scratching at a spot a little way off.

Who acts: morning, man, animal · What happens: be, put down, wipe, notice, do, snuffle · To what, where: spade, last, wet forehead, little way

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 (morning, man, animal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	parataxis
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 spade	nmod:poss
13	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wiped	cc
15	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 forehead	nmod:poss
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forehead	amod
18	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wiped	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 noticing	punct
20	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 wiped	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 did	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 did	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 noticing	parataxis
25	so	so	ADV	_	24 did	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 snuffling	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 snuffling	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 animal	det
29	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 snuffling	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 snuffling	aux
31	snuffling	snuffle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 did	advcl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 scratching	cc
33	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 snuffling	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 spot	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spot	det
36	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 scratching	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 way	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 way	amod
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 snuffling	obl:unmarked
40	off	off	ADV	_	31 snuffling	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the morning			hot property	tree rules
2	put down	past	man	man's spade	last		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spade=Theme at last=Destination
3	wipe	past	man not said here	man's wet forehead			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent forehead=Source
4	notice	gerund	man not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	do	past	man				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	snuffle	past · progressive	the animal	a little way		off property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	scratch	gerund	the animal not said here			at a spot	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at spot=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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