The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 118

He picked up the dish in one hand, tucked the cat under his arm, told the cock to get on his shoulder, and all four vanished into the rock.

Who acts: cat, four · What happens: pick up, tuck, tell, get, vanish · To what, where: dish, one hand, cat, arm, cock, shoulder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, four), 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 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dish	det
5	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hand	nummod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tucked	punct
10	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tucked	obj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 arm	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arm	nmod:poss
15	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tucked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cock	det
19	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 shoulder	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoulder	nmod:poss
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 vanished	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 vanished	cc
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 four	det
28	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 vanished	nsubj
29	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 rock	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rock	det
32	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 vanished	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	pick up	past	cat	the dish		one hand	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Topic
2	tuck	past	cat not said here	the cat		cat's arm	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cat=Theme under arm=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	past	cat not said here		the cock		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cock=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive				cat's shoulder	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Source
5	vanish	past	all four			the rock	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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