The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 80

Then he learnt to catch the little sun moths and rub them through the finest sieves, and the flour from them he made into soft bread for the toothless old woman.

Who acts: scent, flour · What happens: learn, catch, rub, make · To what, where: little sun moths, moths, finest sieves, soft bread

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scent, flour), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 learnt	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learnt	nsubj
3	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 catch	mark
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learnt	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moths	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moths	amod
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moths	compound
9	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rub	cc
11	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 learnt	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rub	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 sieves	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sieves	det
15	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 sieves	amod
16	sieves	sieve	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rub	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flour	det
20	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flour	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learnt	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 bread	case
26	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bread	amod
27	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 woman	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 woman	det
30	toothless	toothless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	scent			then		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	catch	to-infinitive	scent not said here	the little sun moths				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Theme
3	rub	present	scent not said here	moths = moth	the finest sieves			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme through sieve=Destination
4	make	past	the flour from sieves		soft bread		for the toothless old woman	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent into bread=Product for woman=Beneficiary

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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