The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 88

When it was finished he bored a hole in the doll’s breast and put a bit of bread inside; then, drawing a snake out of the basket, forced it to enter the hollow body.

Who acts: man, mould · What happens: finish, bore, put, draw, force, enter · To what, where: mould, hole, breast, bit, snake, basket

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 (man, mould), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux:pass
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bored	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bored	nsubj
6	bored	bore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bored	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 breast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doll	det
11	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breast	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 doll	case
13	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hole	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bored	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bit	det
17	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 bread	case
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bit	nmod
20	inside	inside	ADV	_	19 bread	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 drawing	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 drawing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drawing	punct
24	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 bored	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 snake	det
26	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drawing	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 basket	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 basket	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 basket	det
30	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drawing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 forced	punct
32	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bored	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 forced	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 enter	mark
35	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 forced	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 body	det
37	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 body	amod
38	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 enter	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		mould			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	bore	past	man	a hole	the doll's breast		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer
3	put	infinitive	man not said here	a bit of bread			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bit=Goal
4	draw	gerund	man not said here	a snake	the basket	then	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent snake=Theme out basket=Initial_Location
5	force	past	man not said here	mould			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
6	enter	to-infinitive	mould not said here	the hollow body			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Destination

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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